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...
There are good people doing good things in this industry. In the 30+ years spent advocating for medicinal marijuana, I have been fortunate to work with many right-minded, compassionate, ethical human beings who labor very hard every day to provide relief for those...
“The main reason it has taken so long for the SPARC Sonoma dispensary to open is the red tape in Sacramento and Santa Rosa, the county seat.” Mr. Raskin knows full well that neither Sacramento nor Santa Rosa have been to blame for the lack of a dispensary in Sonoma....
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,...
· Sooo, remember Amy O'Gorman Jenkins, Erich Pearson's personal lobbyist, President of her own firm, Precision Advocacy, and Legislative Advocate for the California Cannabis Industry Association (CCIA)? · You know, the one who, in her capacity as a legislative...
It’s time for us to catch up on the current state of cannabis in Sonoma and the lower Valley. It won’t be until later in April that the one and only dispensary, sparc, owned by Erich Pearson, will finally open in Sonoma. And it may be the only dispensary in town for...
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