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What Do Residents Want?
1) To Pause all cannabis activated until the Public Health Issue is resolved in full by the state
2) No storefront dispensaries in Redondo Beach
- they normalize cannabis use for our youth
- they increase youth use by at least 26%
FACTS
“51% percent oppose shops opening in Redondo Beach”
“75% of voters rejected the cannabis measure that would have allowed up to three cannabis dispensaries in the area.”
LA Times : Public Health Crisis of Dirty Weed
LATEST NEWS
“If legal cannabis sales were thriving and tax collections were flowing into state coffers, the state wouldn’t be forced to increase pot taxes, because the excise tax would be covering the lost revenue from the rescinded cultivation tax. Instead, California’s legal cannabis market has contracted by over 20% in the last two years, and state tax collections have plummeted. Many cannabis businesses can’t even afford to pay the existing taxes, with the state recently estimating that it is owed $1.3 billion in excise taxes and penalties for missed tax payments.”
“Twenty-five of 42 legal cannabis products that The Times and WeedWeek purchased from retail stores and had tested at private labs showed concentrations of pesticides either above levels the state allows or at levels that exceed federal standards for tobacco. The contaminants include chemicals tied to cancer, liver failure, thyroid disease and genetic and neurologic harm to users and unborn children. ”
“Tanisha Bogans, the whistleblower, was hired in 2022 to run the DCC’s Laboratory Services division, which is responsible for regulating cannabis labs and cannabis testing in the state’s legal market. According the lawsuit filed Monday, Bogans said the agency was aware of reports of numerous problems in the legal market, including products contaminated with pesticides and fentanyl, labs illegally manipulating test results and some license holders engaging in illegal sales and “corruption.””
“The industry owes the state nearly $1.3 billion in late taxes and penalties, according to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration.
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““There’s no denying that the legal market in California is on the verge of collapse,””
6/6/24 - More cannabis distress in California as major producing county reports decline in taxes
5/5/24 - Black market cannabis thrives in California despite legalization
4/3/24 - Cannabis operators’ delinquent payments total more than $3.8 billion, report says
2/29/24 - New Data Shows California’s legal cannabis market is struggling badly
11/20/23 - The biggest pot distributor in California has collapsed
STUDIES
“Rates of past-year cannabis use in young adults – who are in a critical period when their brains are still developing – are particularly concerning. Nationally, use in the past 12 months has surged from 23.3% in 1991 to 42.4% in 2023 among adults ages 19-30 years. Daily use in this age group has quadrupled, rising from 2.4% in 1991 to 10.4% in 2023.”
“While chronic psychotic disorders are rare, affecting 1 to 3 percent of the population, they are among the most debilitating mental illnesses.
A study in 11 sites across Europe found that people who regularly consumed marijuana with at least 10 percent THC were nearly five times as likely to develop a psychotic disorder as those who never used it. A study in Ontario found that the risk of developing one was 11 times as high for teenage users compared with nonusers. And researchers estimated that as many as 30 percent of cases of schizophrenia among men in Denmark ages 21 to 30 could be attributed to cannabis use disorder.
“It’s not clearly causal at this point, but there are a lot of facts that are known at this point about the relationship,” said Dr. Bearden of U.C.L.A., who led a recent systematic review of studies of cannabis and chronic psychosis.
Dr. Bearden, who supervises a clinic for 12- to 25-year-olds in whom schizophrenia is starting to surface, estimates that when it opened 20 years ago, about 10 percent of the patients used marijuana regularly. Now, she estimates, nearly 70 percent do.”