Op-Ed | Basil McMahon: Cannabis IS an industry, let's regulate it for the benefit of all

June 9, 2017 – I used to be inspired and happy to see an open invitation to the public for the first Community Advisory Group assembly May 22. It instilled belief in the course of that county officers set forth for the creation of a everlasting cannabis cultivation ordinance. Yet one feedback made by one of the CAG members struck me as odd.


It was acknowledged by one of the CAG members throughout the assembly that cannabis exercise in Nevada County was not an “Industry”– that the definition of “Industry” was, in the speaker’s opinion, restricted to product manufacturing, heavy gear and such related issues. He prompt that cannabis cultivation was strictly an agricultural exercise and needs to be handled as such, and that the group ought to chorus from utilizing the “Industry” terminology as a result of it was not relevant.


To this matter, I'd level out that many market sectors in California’s economic system use the time period “Industry” to explain their business- take the tech trade, or the movie trade, for instance. the phrase “Industry”, in my thoughts, is a helpful and applicable time period used to explain a market sector which incorporates many professions and enterprise specializations, which is strictly what the Cannabis Industry has grown into in California- certainly, this trade is one of the state’s most thriving.


And importantly, this public dialogue we're having, as to the best way to regulate the actions of the cannabis trade in Nevada County, is a dialog about far more than simply cannabis cultivation (the agricultural part that the speaker referred to). The actions of the cannabis trade in our county certainly embody cultivation, but in addition: processing (the act of processing uncooked cannabis that comes from the farm right into a consumable good), manufacturing (of concentrates, topicals, infused and edible cannabis merchandise), distribution and transportation (from cultivator to producer, or cultivator to dispensary, or producer to dispensary), testing laboratories (who measure the efficiency of cannabis merchandise and, importantly, check to make sure that the product meets public well being and security requirements), and Dispensaries (regulated storefronts the place the finish shopper can get hold of medical and/or leisure cannabis that has handed by the regulated provide chain).


The aforementioned actions are licensable market segments as acknowledged by the State of California’s MCRSA (Medical Cannabis rules) invoice, handed by the legislature, in addition to the provisions in the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (Prop. 64) handed by standard referendum final fall. In addition to those licensed cannabis trade actions, any trustworthy overview of the cannabis trade in Nevada County would additionally acknowledge the auxiliary companies which might be thriving because of this of the presence of the cannabis trade right here: the hydroponic gardening outlets, the shops, the greenhouse manufacturing and meeting corporations, the soil and landscaping corporations, the realtors who concentrate on appropriate actual property, the occasion producers who deliver featured cannabis specialists to talk, and tradespeople (electricians, tractor operators, irrigation specialists, HVAC installers) who present specialised experience to native cannabis companies.


To recommend that cannabis exercise in Nevada County doesn't dwell as much as the time period “Industry” as a result of it is merely an agricultural exercise we're talking about is at finest naive, and at worst, a willful diminishment of the broad scope of enterprise exercise which even in the present day, in the absence of rules, is prospering.


I, like so many of my mates, household and friends on this group, want to see the County present recognition to cannabis trade that exists right here already and develop a framework for licensing all market segments, in accordance with just lately established state rules. Creating rules which might be permissive and encourage compliance and participation in monitoring packages are the primary handiest factor that we may do to assist handle the nuisance and public issues of safety which have arisen in an period of prohibition and the absence of wise rules. It will most definitely deliver much more financial prosperity to our county too, by broadening the tax base.


Thankfully, the period of prohibition in California is over. It is about time we embrace the Cannabis Industry that already exists right here in our group, and supply a regulatory framework and county permits, so that companies in good religion could get hold of state licenses once they quickly turn out to be out there.



Op-Ed | Basil McMahon: Cannabis IS an industry, let's regulate it for the benefit of all

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