By Tony Hicks – The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors today will take another look at its 2019 ban on the sale of vaping products that haven’t been reviewed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, cannabis vaping products, and flavored tobacco in unincorporated areas.
In May, the board asked county health officials to come back with information on what’s changed since the ban, including updated safety information on new products and updated state and federal regulations.
In a staff report for Tuesday’s meeting, officials are offering the board four potential options moving forward.
The first option, which heath officials are recommending, is to maintain the current prohibitions on the sale and delivery of flavored cannabis and “cannabis electronic smoking devices and cannabis e-liquids.”
The second option is to direct staff to draft a new ordinance allowing the sale and delivery of all cannabis electronic smoking devices and e-liquids, except flavored liquids, which typically target children.
The third option is a new ordinance that would allow all cannabis electronic smoking devices and e-liquids, including flavored products.
The last option would allow cannabis electronic smoking devices for medicinal use but ban them for recreational use. The current ordinance doesn’t distinguish between the two.
Other considerations include directing staff to produce a system of quarterly inspections of retail cannabis establishments in unincorporated areas to comply with state and local policies and work with local cities to align policy across county jurisdictions.
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Fix the potholes!
Mike stop being reasonable and using common sense
Are you calling people who smoke cannabis “potholes”?
You have to fix the a-holes ruining the county before you can fix the potholes.
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“… but it’s medicine”.
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(sarcasm intended).
I mean, it literally has huge medicinal value, yes.
They legalize pot and now here comes da rules.
Coming down on MJ like this while allowing the continued and unlimited sales of the immensely more destructive tobacco and alcohol is just asinine.
Tobacco smokers even actively and aggressively poison those around them with their second hand smoke, which is very bad for you. If anything proven tobacco addicts should be issued free sample e-cigarettes in an attempt at harm reductions and ultimately smoke cessation.
“Excessive alcohol use is responsible for more than 95,000 deaths in the United States each year, or 261 deaths per day. These deaths shorten the lives of those who die by an average of almost 29 years, for a total of 2.8 million years of potential life lost. It is a leading cause of preventable death in the United States, and cost the nation $249 billion in 2010.” https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/features/excessive-alcohol-deaths.html
Sure, go ahead and outlaw alcohol. All you need to do is to pass a Constitutional Amendment to repeal the 21st Amendment that repealed the 18th Amendment, that made alcohol illegal.
Weed has many great uses in the medical world, but you will never hear that from the pharmaceutical manufacturers. You would probably not see a need for multiple medicines (big profit) currently in the market. Do your research and see what would work best for you.
Number two makes the most sense.
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