Now that Measure Y has failed, it becomes even more vital that the Sonoma City Council find a way to quickly renew the currently stalled process for a local dispensary.
For those of you who are not up to date on how we arrived at this impasse, take a look at the Sonoma Index-Tribune article, published on October 8, 2020:
“Less than half an hour into its Oct. 5 meeting, the city council cast doubt on its own selection process and halted forward progress on its effort to license a cannabis dispensary before the Nov. 3 vote on Measure Y. That signature-driven petition circulated in 2018 to allow multiple cannabis dispensaries in Sonoma with no city council oversight...”
It is now incumbent on the city council to reinstate the process in a way that doesn't require it to start from square one.
An additional component to this issue should be to permit at least one additional walk-in dispensary. It’s not right for one company to monopolize the market space. Competition is good, it results in more diversity and higher quality of products. This only seems fair.
Let's see what happens...
Regards,
Gil Latimer