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From:Clerk of the Board
To:Blankenship, DeAnne
Cc:Lee, Lewis; Mutony, Heather
Subject:Board Correspondence - FW: Information Request: Cannabis Policies, Regulations and/or Processes in your
Jurisdiction
Date:Monday, February 3, 2025 8:29:24 AM
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From: Getting it Right from the Start <gettingitright@phi.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2025 3:22 PM
To: Pickett, Andy <APickett@buttecounty.net>; Recorders <Recorders@buttecounty.net>; Clerk of
the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net>; marmstrong@buttecounty.net
Cc: Alisa Padon <apadon@phi.org>; Jason Soroosh <JSoroosh@phi.org>
Subject: Information Request: Cannabis Policies, Regulations and/or Processes in your Jurisdiction
Dear City/County Officials,
We contacting you on behalf of the Getting it Right from the Start team, a project of the Public
Health Institute. Since 2019, we have collected data on the local cannabis laws passed by each
of California's 540 jurisdictions.
Today, we are reaching out for your help in identifying any changes made to your cannabis-
related policies, regulations, or processes during 2024. We are also interested in your current
cannabis tax rate(s) if you have passed a local tax.
Any information you can provide will help ensure that your jurisdiction is accurately
represented in our work. Please address your response and any questions or feedback to Jason
Soroosh, at jsoroosh@phi.org. Please respond by February 24th, 2025. If there is someone
more suitable to assist with this request, we would greatly appreciate it if you could forward
this message to them.
With the help of feedback from cities and counties, we strive to continually improve our
methods to reflect local policies more accurately and comprehensively.
Using this data, we have published numerous scientific studies on California's local cannabis
laws, and we annually publicly release a series of "scorecards" for every California
jurisdiction that allows cannabis storefront or delivery-only retail sales. The scores are based
on six public health and equity-focused categories that capture recommended policies to
protect youth, reduce problem cannabis use, and promote social equity.
If you are a jurisdiction that allows cannabis storefront or delivery-only retail sales, we will
reach out to you again to review our draft 2025 Scorecard for your jurisdiction before the
public release of the final 2025 Scorecard.
You can learn more about our work, best practices by California jurisdictions, and access
specific language to incorporate recommended practices into your local law from our model
by visiting our webpage
Please let us know if you have any questions, or if we can be of assistance to your
jurisdiction.
The Getting it Right from the Start team:
Alisa A. Padon, PhD
Research Director
Aurash J. Soroosh, RD, MSPH
Policy Associate
Lynn Silver, MD, MPH, FAAP
Director
Kiara Gonzalez Garcia
Health Equity Program Manager
Ryan Whitacre, PhD
Research Scientist
Getting it Right from the Start
Public Health Institute
2000 Center Street, #308
Berkeley, CA 94607
https://gettingitrightfromthestart.org/