At its regular meeting on Tuesday, May 23, the Concord City Council will consider updating its Tobacco Retailer License Ordinance to restrict the sale of flavored tobacco, electronic smoking devices, certain coupons and discounts for tobacco products, and to require minimum package sizes and minimum prices for cigars and cigarettes.
The final agenda for this meeting and the complete staff report on this item will be available no later than 5 p.m. on May 19 on the City’s Council agenda web page.
Priorities priorities. Let’s say we work on homelessness and charging criminals for tormenting our neighborhoods? Oh wait criminals have more rights than hard working citizens.
What hypocrisy, not to mention irony! They restrict tobacco use to destroy people’s businesses who have sold tobacco for years to adults, but encourage pot dispensaries that are popping up like mushrooms in Spring, making kids and many adults, too, zombies with this gateway drug.
The City Councils and Board of Sups in Concord and everywhere else are nothing but a bunch of criminal whores for the dispensary financers who they do back door deals with. That is what happens when cities have whores fir politicians ad drunks as mayor.
Civilization is collapsing fast!
What else is new in this liberal hell hole we call CA, NY and all other cities and states where chaos is now the norm.
It’s been reported that a substantial proportion of pot dispensaries now have overwhelming debt loads. A change in the way the taxes are collected on the industry is now requiring the retail outlets to pay them directly. Many are already behind. With the staggering debt loads and the taxes they now have to pay directly, many of these businesses are expected to close down this year.
Illegality it bro!
We need more tobacco merchants, more cannabis outlets AND less government infringement on commercial enterprise.
All this does is emphasize the fact that our so called leaders have zero backbone and would much rather pick the low hanging fruit instead of doing their jobs and protecting us from real life situations they put us in daily for not locking up criminals. I will sleep much better knowing that the smash and grab guy is out there but I can’t buy an e-cigarette. Can’t make this stuff up
If its an illegal alien, homeless thief, smoking a cherry flavored cigarette will they still get charged?
@Just Saying
Yeah, they’ll get charged….with a notice to appear in 2027.
What about restricting pot use and flavored vapes? No menthol cigarettes but a plethora of flavored pot vapes and gummies. Where is the logic? Oh wait, this is Calunicornia, there isn’t any…
Why do you want to restrict what I ingest, comrade?
You do you, but stay out of my business, please.
This will not solve a thing it’s a power trip for the city council.They passed it in other cities and it’s being sold illegally through some merchants still.Just not in there stores.So you can’t stop it you fools.Why not focus on fixing roads and crime in this city that is getting worse by the day.Nothing but morons.
“Updating” assumes improvement. I guess useless bureaucrats got to look busy.
I agree with the proposed restrictions. In fact, I would take a step further and require all tobacco and cannabis smoking/vaping products to be sold only at a licensed pharmacy with a doctors prescription. Dangerous and habituating products.
Meh. THC is far less addictive — and more enjoyable — than nicotine. Though not without risk, we’re moving in the right direction by easing the government’s iron grip on individual liberties.
MIKE MCDERMOTT,
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I posted a link for you that shows the downtown map for the “early California-Spanish-style” design requirements in the comment section of the Concord Planning Commission story.
TBK, thanks for the link. Appreciate it! Sorry your family had to go through that trauma with redevelopment. I agree with you the boxy modern look is dismal. Hopefully it is just a phase we are going through and better designs will emerge.
God I wish we the people would vote these Idiots out. Fix the F ing pot holes and roads, Stop crime and homeless camps.
I wish this article had posted last night when I was suffering from insomnia.
Last I checked cannabis doesn’t make you drunk to where you can’t see straight, fight someone, black out etc such as alcohol. Again going after the wrong people friends.
Meanwhile the infrastructure, roads, pot holes etc….Willow Pass rd in coming from hwy 4 is so dangerous and needs to be completely redone. I guess You don’t notice it if you are DUI.
Who cares? It’s easy to drive 5 minutes away