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Supervisors Amend Cannabis Ordinance Again, Deny Appeal for Carpinteria Valley Farm
NewsNoozhawk, August 20, 2019
Cannabis farms will have to use odor- control systems earlier in the permitting process, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday after years of nuisance complaints from neighbors of marijuana farms. The supervisors also unanimously voted to deny an appeal by Maureen Claffey, with the Concerned Carpinterians community group, of a Carpinteria Valley cannabis farm at 3561 Foothill Road.
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Cannabis ordinances, license appeal on Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors’ agenda
NewsSanta Maria Times, August 17, 2019
Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors discussion will be all about cannabis when it meets at 9 a.m. Tuesday in Santa Barbara.
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California’s Largest Legal Weed Farms Face Conflict In Wine Country
NewsNPR, August 14, 2019
The UCSB economics study of Santa Barbara County’s cannabis industry suggests the county’s wine is valued at about $120 million, while its cannabis is worth about $180 million, but on a tiny fraction of the land. As the county positions itself to earn significant tax dollars from cannabis, crop farmers, winegrowers and cannabis cultivators are learning to live and work as neighbors .
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GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR CANNABIS COMMERCE LAUNCHES IN LOS ANGELES
NewsLA Weekly, August 14, 2019
A new national advocacy organization – the Global Alliance for Cannabis Commerce (GACC)- has launched in Los Angeles to advocate and educate lawmakers on the path towards federal cannabis legalization. Recent estimates suggest a cannabis market worth over $200 billion in the next decade. Without progressive federal legal policy, Americans and Angelenos may not be able to participate nationally in the benefits associated with the eventual ending of prohibition.
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Santa Barbara County supervisors agree to use cannabis revenue to close three libraries’ budget gaps
NewsSanta Ynez Valley News, August 13, 2019
Three branch libraries won’t have to cut hours or reduce programs after the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors agreed Tuesday to make up deficits in their operating budgets totaling $68,447 by using cannabis tax revenues.
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