Supes Reimpose Cannabis Tax
With $14 million in outstanding bills, board tasks staff with enforcement plan
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With $14 million in outstanding bills, board tasks staff with enforcement plan
However, Humboldt County Planning and Building Director John Ford went over the current landscape of cannabis cultivation permitting in Humboldt County and answered questions from supervisors about moving forward, especially amid the controversial Measure A, a ballot initiative proponents say will place much needed environmental safeguards on cannabis farms and critics say will obliterate the legal market if passed next year.
The board passed a motion unanimously to opt out of the change in a meeting Tuesday, and to revisit the change later to see how other counties fair.
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to continue suspending all but 10% of measure S taxes for cannabis cultivation in Tuesday's meeting.