The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 on Wednesday to adopt a policy that would permit regulated cannabis retail sales, cultivation and manufacturing in the county's unincorporated areas, board chair Nathan Fletcher announced.
Voting for approval were Fletcher and Nora Vargas, who co-authored the policy with Fletcher, as well as Supervisors Terra Lawson-Remer and Joel Anderson, who, as supervisor for the 2nd District, represents most of the unincorporated areas to the south. The holdout vote was cast by Jim Desmond, who represents the unincorporated areas in North County in District 5.
"Our county’s new position on cannabis brings us in line with the will of the voters but also takes the extra step toward the future to establish equitable opportunities for economic prosperity and good-paying jobs, right the wrongs of the War on Drugs and establishes safeguards to ensure cannabis is safe, regulated and legal," Fletcher said in a news release sent out by his office after the vote.
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