SR 05-10-2022 13B 13.B
May 10, 2022
Council Meeting: May 10, 2022 Santa Monica, California
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CITY CLERK’S OFFICE - MEMORANDUM
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Denise Anderson Warren, City Clerk, Records & Elections Services
Department
Date: May 10, 2022
13.B Request of Councilmembers Negrete, de la Torre, and Brock that the City
Manager schedule a study session as soon as practicable regarding
whether to allow for the sale of nonmedicinal cannabis in the City of Santa
Monica, as the City currently allows for the sale of medicinal cannabis. The
study session shall include suggested Municipal Code changes, as well as
options for City Council direction on potential locations, permitting
process, social equity provisions to make legal cannabis business
ownership and employment opportunities more accessible to low-income
individuals and communities most impacted by the criminalization of
cannabis, and any other regulatory restrictions as may be appropriate,
including the maximum number of medicinal and nonmedicinal cannabis
establishments in the City that are recommended. Finally, the study
session shall also include municipal code changes that are necessary to
allow for Cannabis-themed special events in specified locations in the City.
13.B
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Vernice Hankins
From:Peter DiChellis <pdichellis@yahoo.com>
Sent:Monday, May 9, 2022 2:53 PM
To:councilmtgitems
Subject:Agenda Item 13b.
EXTERNAL
With 2022 violent crimes at cannabis dispensaries making headlines, including recent armed robbery murders in Tarzana
and Compton, this item seems tone‐deaf at best.
If you insist on pursuing it, confer with law enforcement, include a serious study of associated violent crime in the local
region, and publicize those findings.
Sincerely,
Peter DiChellis
Santa Monica ‐ 90403
(former idyllic beach town, recently named one of the “least safe” cities in California)
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Packet Pg. 1630 Attachment: Written Comments (5118 : Nonmedical cannabis sales)