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...
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...
Did You Know?…
From Josette Brose-Eichar, SVCG Policy Group member:Did you know that they city of Sonoma’s cannabis ordinance was updated in 2021 to allow and license a second dispensary? Did you know the present Sonoma city council placed putting the second dispensary out for bid...
Former Sonoma Mayor Ken Brown asks Valley residents to email City Council
“I want to encourage you to contact city hall and gently, but forcefully, lean on them to get it on the agenda for the first meeting in April.” Nothing is ever perfect. We only do the best we can. We’re made of hopes and dreams and the stage is ours, until it’s not....
Our comments to the Sonoma City Council regarding the second dispensary on March 1, 2023.
We continue to fight in the hope of a day when we no longer need to. - Obama
Healdsburg to Permit Cannabis Business
'nuff said...