Solvang City Council members Monday voted 3-2 to seek further law enforcement input before considering an update to city code that would allow recreational use cannabis sales within city limits.
Council Member Elizabeth Orona made the motion to receive a report from the Santa Barbara County's cannabis compliance team “to be well informed” before updating the code.
“I’m not a big fan of pot. I wasn’t when it was medicinal. But the voters approved this in 2016. … As long as people are going from Solvang to Lompoc to get this, then Solvang is losing out on the tax dollar,” Clarke said. California became the first state to allow medicinal cannabis use when voters passed the Compassionate Use Act in 1996. That law required customers to secure medicinal-use cards from their doctors.
No dispensaries have opened in Solvang, but for the past 14 months, San Luis Obispo-based Megan’s Organic Market has been working through the city process in an effort to open their retail outlet at 1210 Mission Drive. The business reported 90 percent of customers at their flagship location purchased without the medicinal use card in 2022. Only 1,700 flashed a medicinal card.
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