This is a message that needs to be repeated over and over again in some quarters. We've forwarded this to the Sonoma City Council as a reminder that patients should not be restricted to only one retail outlet in the middle of a cannabis desert. Dear City Council and...
All politics is local. Decisions made by city councils, mayors and commissioners have a direct and immediate impact on the lives of residents in their communities. Per California’s DCC, 56 percent of cities and counties prohibit the licensing of all cannabis business...
In her latest column for the Sonoma Sun, "If it works for veggie burgers…", SVCG member Josette Brose-Eichar writes, "Do we need a second cannabis dispensary in the City of Sonoma? My little personal story, I think points out, yes we do." It's well worth the read. Her...
During last week's council meeting, Vice Mayor Kelso Barnett acknowledged that so-called community benefits are not required for any other type of business, "…If we're trying to normalize cannabis businesses, we should treat (them) like any other business and to...
Innovation, tailored customer experiences, competitive pricing, broader selection of products…These are the benefits of competition, something that Erich Pearson and Amy O’Gorman Jenkins of sparc and the Sonoma City Council are bound and determined to deny the...
Recently, one our our SVCG members said, “It is too bad our city council is “deaf” to the reality of how Pearson does business.” My response? I don’t know how you get those who are deaf and dumb to hear and speak. It’s absolutely infuriating that not one of them,...
Sometimes pictures can be worth much more than words. Our infograph tells the story of why we need the dispensary process to begin ASAP. We’ll forward this to the City Council.
The Sonoma County Registrar of Voters this week began mailing vote-by-mail ballots for the Nov. 2, 2021. So a small group of us came together as a mayoral candidate review committee to suggest an endorsement. We’ve done a lot of research on backgrounds and four of us...
The 200+ member Sonoma Valley Cannabis Group continues to work to prevent a monopoly of service within the city of Sonoma. 1. Great weave by Josette Brose-Eichar of the Mattson issue with the dispensary process. 2. Mayor almost skips over my Zoom public comment 3....
The second dispensary process is currently delayed pending more information from Staff to the council. SVCG member Perri Ellis Paniagua wrote the following to the Index Tribune: ‘It should not be this hard’ on cannabis EDITOR: I am disappointed with what happened at...