"A Sausalito cannabis initiative will be removed from the November ballot after a Marin judge ruled that the measure is invalid because its proponents are not residents of the city." Never mind that Pearson’s initiative was thrown out because neither he nor Paul...

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...

“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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