"The second fatal flaw is local control, or the requirement that cannabis businesses receive permits from both the local jurisdiction and the state. That sounds reasonable. But in practice, it’s led to cannabis retail bans in much of the state. By allowing...
Healdsburg will host two retail dispensaries.
In protecting a city-sponsored monopoly, Sonoma refuses to begin the process for its second dispensary.Healdsburg and Sonoma each have a population of 11,000. Their "Greater Trade Areas" both account for populations of 40,000-50,000.The nearest dispensaries outside of...
Why are they doing business in Sonoma?
Would like to remind that if it wasn't for our Sonoma Valley Cannabis Group constantly lobbying the city council over five long years for all our medical patients and consumers, Erich Pearson's sparc would never have opened for business in Sonoma. Just one example is...
The Nature of Conscience and its Corruption
Like most industries, the cannabis trade harbors its share of pretenders and opportunists, greedy to exploit any opportunity to make a buck at the expense of vulnerable patients and consumers. Nor is government exempt from the temptation to profit. From the halls of...
Yes, Healdsburg is permitting two dispensaries.
Healdsburg has the same population as Sonoma,11,000+. The city council was told years by its own consultant, HdL, that the city could sustain 2 dispensaries. So why would the city council dilute by half its potential for more revenue to Sonoma that could benefit its...
Sonoma won’t have a second dispensary anytime soon. Why not?
Column by Friend Josette Brose-Eichar in the Sonoma Valley Sun: Last month the Sonoma City Council addressed the issue of issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a second cannabis dispensary within city limits. The city’s cannabis ordinance was changed two years ago...
Retraction and Apology from sparc CEO Joseph Erich Pearson Necessary
Two responses from our Sonoma Valley Cannabis Group regarding the city council's mishandling of the 2nd dispensary issue and the accusations made against us by sparc CEO Erich Pearson.Thanks to Perri Ellis Paniagua for her letter. My rejoinder to Pearson's false...
Rather fail with Honor than succeed by fraud – Sophocles
Erich Pearson, CEO of sparc, currently operates 5 cannabis dispensaries in Sonoma County and San Francisco. His dispensary in the city of Sonoma has been open for one year and enjoys the enviable position as the one and only...
We continue to ask for email support for a second dispensary
Please write the Sonoma City Council in support of a second dispensary: citycouncil@sonomacity.org
We’re doing the best we can, but…
Two of us spoke to the Sonoma City Council two nights ago. As was pointed out to me earlier, only council member Ron Wellander was involved in the 1st dispensary and then as a Planning Commissioner, not a council member, while we, collectively, followed and...