The Sacramento City Council will soon vote on a proposal for a pilot program which, if passed, would enable the social consumption of cannabis at select dispensaries. The impending vote has ignited a debate on the future range of cannabis operations in Sacramento.
The city permits the sale, cultivation and distribution of cannabis within its borders. A pilot project for cannabis lounges is a logical extension of what the city already embraces.
Yet in a recent city Law and Legislation meeting, Councilmember Eric Guerra compared cannabis lounges to fentanyl lounges, ignoring the fact that fentanyl killed 3,946 Californians in 2020 . By comparison, no deaths from the overdose of marijuana have ever been reported, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration . This dangerous conflation diminishes the conversation about cannabis’ legal status…