TODAY: Webinar on Rights and Responsibilities of Municipalities Regulating Cannabis

Please join us today from 12 pm to 1:15 pm Pacific for a webinar on the rights, opportunities, and responsibilities of California municipalities regulating cannabis. The webinar will feature Brad Rowe of BOTEC Analysis, a drug and crime policy research and consulting firm, and Hilary Bricken of our LA office, who will present on the information, data, and legal and policy considerations local governments need regarding MAUCRSA and their ability to regulate or ban cannabis.

Topics covered during the webinar include:

• How can municipalities balance cultivation, production, sales and use restrictions while staying eligible for funding under MAUCRSA?
• What can local governments expect from MAUCRSA funding long term? How and when does MAUCRSA money sunset, and who will be affected?
• What are realistic and lawful municipal cannabis tax policies? What groups would be affected and how?
• What might taxing by THC content look like? What groups would be affected and how?
• How can market measurements help localities model tax revenues and assist in locating dispensaries?
• What are the opportunities for communities that have enacted a ban and plan to reverse it down the road?
• How can cities leverage unionized cannabis workers (see LA) to create a credit union and a pool of money to support small and minority-owned business?
• What are current banking options for operators?
• What are the policy considerations of allowing only medicinal versus recreational and what have we learned from other states and local governments about this?
• How should municipalities value and reward existing operators without being overly protectionist?
• What are the mechanisms for municipalities to communicate effectively with each other and with the state in an environment of ever-changing regulations?

Brad and Hilary will address audience questions both during and at the end of the webinar.

Local governments in California are squarely in charge of who gets to participate under MAUCRSA; they are on the front lines of policing operators while balancing communal impact and concerns. As such, don’t miss this webinar to better educate yourself on the range of policy and tax choices and regulatory and legal oversight mechanisms available to local governments under MAUCRSA. To register, please go here.

source https://www.cannalawblog.com/today-webinar-on-rights-and-responsibilities-of-municipalities-regulating-cannabis/