Katelyn Baker
Well-Known Member
Efforts to place a local medical cannabis initiative on the November ballot have hit a roadblock.
The author of that measure, Phil Ganong says problems surfaced with the freelance workers hired to collect signatures to qualify the initiative for the ballot.
"What we do is we sit down and we take the names and cross check them on Google and we came up with addresses to vacant lots, or they just didn't exist," said Ganong. "We picked it up during our own audit and we went back to look at the work these same people had done for contractors earlier and we found problems so now we're having to do a full audit of everything."
As reported two weeks ago on Kern County: In Depth, the goal of Ganong's ballot measure is to lift the city's ban on medical marijuana dispensaries and replace it with regulations enacted by the state legislature last year.
Ganong says if Attorney General Kamala Harris is elected to the U.S. Senate in November, then there will be a special statewide election to fill her post in 2017, and the group pushing the cannabis measure will try to get it placed on the ballot in time for that election.
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Full Article: Local Medical Marijuana Law Set For November Ballot Hits Roadblock
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Contact: 661-283-1700
Photo Credit: KSDK
Website: Kern Golden Empire
The author of that measure, Phil Ganong says problems surfaced with the freelance workers hired to collect signatures to qualify the initiative for the ballot.
"What we do is we sit down and we take the names and cross check them on Google and we came up with addresses to vacant lots, or they just didn't exist," said Ganong. "We picked it up during our own audit and we went back to look at the work these same people had done for contractors earlier and we found problems so now we're having to do a full audit of everything."
As reported two weeks ago on Kern County: In Depth, the goal of Ganong's ballot measure is to lift the city's ban on medical marijuana dispensaries and replace it with regulations enacted by the state legislature last year.
Ganong says if Attorney General Kamala Harris is elected to the U.S. Senate in November, then there will be a special statewide election to fill her post in 2017, and the group pushing the cannabis measure will try to get it placed on the ballot in time for that election.
News Moderator: Katelyn Baker 420 MAGAZINE ®
Full Article: Local Medical Marijuana Law Set For November Ballot Hits Roadblock
Author: Staff
Contact: 661-283-1700
Photo Credit: KSDK
Website: Kern Golden Empire
