Currently. And it saves retail operators from having to go outside the city in order to fill their pipeline. I mean, we basically eliminate businesses that have been operating to date providing the pipeline for existing mcds to continue to do their business. And then the other one you didnt really speak about, the Compassion Program. Do you want to Say Something about that . Yeah, well, the Compassion Program. State law did not allow fto giv away cannibis. This allows a store front to have medical cannibis product at low or nominal cost for individuals qualified under California Health and safety code 1362. 7. This is page 10 line 8 to use medical cannibis. So it allows the director of the office of cannibis to adopt rules, regulations and guidelines applicable to Compassion Programs including but not limited to eligibility and applicable to those who may get it at low or no cost. In laymens terms, essentially the current laws dont allow for basically giving away cannibis. But what this allows for, if youre it says medical its only on the medical side, not the adult use side. No, not on the adult use side. I just want to be clear. Someone who would have to come in, they would still have a medical card. And then that person would it says no or minimal cost to low income individuals identified under California Health and safety code. Is that probably is what determines that theyre low income . Thats probably the section of the code how do they how do you verify theyre low income . I think that the health and safety code refers to the medical cannibis card. Thats right. Thats a reference to the state law who describes who is eligible to use medical cannibis, they have to be a qualified patient with a physician recommendation. And it says the director shall adopt rules, regulations and guidelines applicable to the Compassion Program. Thats where the rules will be set and where people will be qualified as low income and set a threshold. Thats the intention. Thank you. Any Committee Members have questions on these amendments . I have a couple of questions. Im just wondering, so were assuming that everything in the pipeline that is for adult use will be medical useless, is that an assumption or wrong assumption . The permits is for retail require all retailers to retain medical, they may say medical only but if they do adult use they must retain medical. But the ones in the pipeline, the new ones would offer medical and adult use, is that correct . I dont know what their plans are as operators, however they would be required to obtain medical. So they but new permits coming forward, dont require medical just adult use. Will there be some dispensaries that give medical and adult and some dispensaries just adult use . No, only dispensaries or retailers that are adult and medical or medical only. We are not proposing adult use only. Got it. Thank you for the answer. I have another question. Then have we set aside any provisions that actually clarify what medical if youre offering medical cannibis that provisions for medical patients for example many of the dispensaries in Washington State and oregon have everything packaged. So there is no loose product anymore, that it is all packaged. And so when we talk about a medical patient, much of it is trial and error, much of it is by the smell, much of it is by how this combination works with this combination because everybodys makeup is so unique. Will our medical marijuana dispensaries offer patients the ability to actually have this interaction with loose product or will everything be just packaged . I do think that medical marijuana is has a different purpose but then also its a different way of accessing its a medicine that actually interacts with your body and individuals very differently. The use of cannibis in a medical capacity is quite frankly before the aids epidemic but was also used before that for other remedies, too. All was medical use. Supervisor, under the application requirements for retailers on page 34 line 15 theres a provision in there that requires a description of how the applicant will support the needs of those who qualify under the health and safety codes to use medical cannibis including but not limited to providing space where customers may speak confident ally 1019. And ensuring sufficient supply of medical cannibis product. I think that might speak to your concerns. Not really. You want to be able to ensure that the patient has access to loose flower, is that your question . Yeah. I just think its sort of key when youre talking about medicine. Not everyones dosage is the same and not everyones medicine is the same. And this is why i think marijuana is so effective as a medicine, actually patients are able to access or combine strains sometimes or try out a strain to see how it works. And so, when everything is sealed in a package, it doesnt give you the ability to actually smell it or interact with product, and i think that is correct me if im wrong, i think its a large part of it. What i hear from people, from medical marijuana users, its about the interaction in your own individual body. That does not give that provision in the particular part of legislation. Also with my colleagues, do you feel its important or not important. Feel free to weigh in. Can i just ahead for a second, supervisor sheehy is the only medical cannibis supervisor. I would like him to weigh in. Thats kind of the practice now. I dont know that we need to put it in the law. Certainly if thats something we need to clarify within the actual regulations to implement the law by the director, i think thats probably it seems a level of a little too deep to require medical cannibis dispensaries to have loose leaf product. I think they do now. Everybody gives you the opportunity to look at at least for the ones i have been to, you get the opportunity to look at it and sample but when you look at other states that have introduced adult use, its all packaged. I have a question. Are you asking i have a question supervisor. I want to clarify what youre asking. Are you asking they write into the legislation that product, some of the product has to be loose . I think i would like assurance. Its great we can have a conversation here about it and i think its important. But if Going Forward around cannibis use for medical marijuana patients, i think we should have a provision that product will be accessible to medical patients in a loose form. I think if were going to go forward and we really believe patients need product to okay. I got it. Supervisor yee live comfortably. Yeah, so it would just maybe be a line or two and in one dispensary i went to, it was either washington oregon or, they had loose product on the side. The other ones had no loose product at all and said there was no loose product at all, were only doing it in packages that are sealed with dosages and that they never patients never touch the product and the only aaccommodation they gave to medical marijuana patients, they didnt have to pay the tax. But it didnt have any other provision for medical use. Im questioning it because im hearing thats an essential part of it being a medicine. Can i offer a suggestion, some of this stuff were doing in this transition period is going to be temporary, theyre going to be guidelines written, theres going to be implementation and oversight period and i just wonder if this is something have you heard this is an issue, you are seeing in the field in terms of whats currently out there or youre concerned were going to transition to it . No. Were only medical marijuana now. Were not adult use now. But when we switch to adult use i understand i want to make sure they have access. If you feel that you dont need to put this into legislation until we can add it later, but i actually feel its sort of important just in the and also with this new amendment that supervisor sheehy has just proposed, its all about medical marijuana and im thinking why not strengthen the ability for people to access this in loose form. Supervisor yee. Sure. Thank you supervisor fewer. Before you spoke, i was going in the opposite direction, whats the point of keeping records for mcds if everybody is walking in and buying whatever they want to buy anyway. But i think your argument makes some sense to me, not from my experience going into the mcds, so much as growing up with traditional chinese medicine, thats exactly what we do. You walk in, its not prepackaged. Those trained as a medical doctor will take your pulse and do all kinds of stuff and determine what combination of herbs and so forth would make sense to you as an individual and then goes to my sister and says youre going to do Something Else. So i think your argument makes a lot of sense. And i would be very supportive if there was language to continue allowing that and not having it all be prepackaged. Thank you. Supervisor sheehy, are you still on the call . Yeah. Maybe it would be helpful to describe the provisions. Youre not walking to a counter where everybody goes for everything. My understanding is adult and medical is separate. The supply chains are. And when you go in . The products are separate, yes. We talked about this early on when we were drafting to maintain youll still have experienced people knowledgeable about the medical uses, is there language in there about that . What language do we have to protect the medical side from being again, it would be that provision that would require i dont have it in front of me right now. I could track it down. Its the provision that requires the retailer to ensure theyre meeting the needs of medical patients, including through supply as well as privacy when it comes to that sort of consultation. We have the privacy provision. If people want to put more language, but could you handle it regulation dropping the rules do you have a general sense of whats there . I mean, do we want to require there be loose Product Available then we can do that. I would defer to the City Attorney as far as i could require that through rules and regulations. Any thoughts . Deputy City Attorney gibbner . If we do so, we probably want to add language about knowledgeable personnel. Say that again. Knowledgeable personnel. Can we do that with director or do we need to put the language in stipulating loose product and maintenances. Really, i guess when i think about it, its not really its just continuing best practice. But yeah, but if were doing legislation, you and i are temporary stewards of city government. It should be memorialized in legislation quite frankly. It doesnt matter if were having a discussion about it. Its about what will happen 10 years from now if adult use takes over and everything is all sealed. I mean i actually think because supervisor sheehy and i are used to herbalists, we understand that not all dosages and medicines affect people the same. I think its i dont think the provision in here is Strong Enough and it doesnt have to stay loose, but access to product that is not packaged. It doesnt have to say hey, loose leaf or whatever, i mean, i just think if we want to maintain the integrity of medical marijuana. No, i got it. Sometimes we need legislation that protects forever the integrity of medical marijuana. Okay. So deputy City Attorney gibbner. Hold on supervisor. Go ahead. In response to in response to supervisor sheehys question about the directors authority. Director has which director are we talking about . Miss elliot. The director has pretty Broad Authority to adopt rules and regulations, getting into this but not specifically defined. So if the board is interested in ensuring that she has authority to require medical cannibis retailers to provide an adequate mix of products to clients, we could add that into the ordinance rather than specifying you must have this much loose product, we could say director may or shall adopt rules and regulations ensuring diverse mix of products for medical patients. So, my comment is i think that would be fine except this is a lot of authority to the director. Im just going to say that the director here today is nicole elliot, the director here in five years could be somebody completely different that doesnt believe in medical marijuana. Im just im just saying that we are now as the supervisors on the verge of creating ordinances that will regulate a huge business. We have no idea where this is going to head but we do know the past relationship with marijuana and our past relationship with marijuana has been medical and it has proven to be successful as medical. And so i just want to make sure that we have the integrity of the Medicinal Marijuana is still in place and protected for those thousands of patients. I think you make a good point. Supervisor yee and then supervisor sheehy. I was just going to say one word, i think what i heard deputy City Attorney, i think if you want to put in the language supervisor fewer, shall the members support it okay. So is that an an amendment . We can make it for tomorrow but giving requiring the director to provide shall sorry, hold on. I have cut supervisor sheehy off several times. Go ahead. Thank you, i appreciate that. I just think when we start getting away in the weeds no pun intended, we may create unintended consequences. The track and trace rules that the state is requiring may end up necessitating prepackaged product and could stop the whole train for patients putting into laws and rules we havent researched with conformity to state law. I ask us to be careful, thats why im asking that the director, and i think the amendment to make shall be part of it, but were coming into a different reality. The track and trace rules are very strong. And one of the reasons i understand what its like to try to figure out what works best. Thats why it was important to have on site consumption so you can sample, can you see the impact on you from different products, but i do think we have to be careful im not completely sure how the track and trace requirements are going to be implemented. Its not like today where somebody opens the draw and starts taking stuff out and weighing it and putting it into pill bottles, as much as i love that mode of doing it, i dont know how thats really going to work in terms of state law. State law at the end of the day will be ultimately what is determinative. So, im not trying to cut the debate or conversation off but do you have additional or final comments . Nobody knows what the state law is going to be. So having said that, City Attorney gibbner, before tomorrows meeting could i see a copy of the proposed language, please. Sure. So yeah we can director elliot. I want to suggest one clarifying amendment the City Attorney made me aware of. Page 58, line 12 under store front cannibis retailers, while i have been saying that as far as retail we want to retain medical and adult use the word authorities is not required. I would recommend the City Attorney draft amendment to strike authorities and put in requires. Do we have to draft that or just strike it today . If the city does it after Public Comment well send it to the meeting tomorrow. The only last thing, i think its good well have it drafted and we can kind of sleep on it and think about it a little bit more. The only thing i would say, i know from practice in terms of restaurants and limited restaurants and businesses in general, when we try to be overregulate it, if the market shifts in one way or the other, they will do the bear minimum to meet the requirements. If it becomes rules from track and trade everything has to be packaged and we say it has to be open, i can imagine theres a tiny corner where they have a little thing open to meet the requirements of rules or because San Francisco has a robust tradition of interacting with medicine as you both have pointed out and the market here locally will dictate the demand is there and people want to have open product to smell, interact with and so on, i dont know if thats necessarily how the market will go. I think were all kind of speculating. Lets draft the amendment and well have a final conversation about it tomorrow. The only point i was trying to make was as we start to handout these temporary permits that we know were all committed to, i think were going to see in a quick amount of time how the industry adjusts in the first year. If there was an extreme movement one way or another, we have the ability to come back and adjust. Im happy to support drafting that amendment and moving forward. And so, why dont we anything else . Lets take Public Comment and come back to the amendments. We have your amendment as proposed. Do you need more direction in terms of the management and security plan, should we come back to that after Public Comment . I think we have it but well prepare that for tomorrow to vote on. Unless theres additional comments from colleagues here, and thank you supervisor sheehy for your leadership on this. I know you have been working hard on this, even over the weekend i was getting calls and trying to get the process going. I appreciate you sitting in today and all the thought put in by my fellow Committee Members. I know we have a lot of other business to do. Its consuming a lot of our time. Im going to open for Public Comment. Each speaker has two minutes. Please state your name clearly. Im going to call the first two speakers and as you move on, feel free to stay but i know there are people waiting to come in as well. We normally would have been in the large room. Nicole howl, doug block, alley gemalian and herald smith. Good morning im an attorney that represents cannibis businesses, my firm represents operators throughout the state. Thank you to supervisor sheehy for the amendments here today and the committee and office of cannibis for the responsiveness to the needs of the industry and requirements of social justice through the Equity Program. So, as i am often proud to be part of the San Francisco community and today is no exception and i appreciate the level of conversation thats been had. So good job so far. But theres a little bit of work to do. There are two points i would like to offer for your consideration. The first is with regard to ownership changes. At section 1808 subsection b i would like to ask the committee to please consider ownership change of up to 40 would be permitted. This services the needs of the existing operator to remain in control of the business. Cannibis operations are expensive. Its going to be expensive for these businesses to continue to operate after they have a licence and they need the ability to take on the capital they need in order to do so. So i ask you for that change and of course the change to 1608 subsection d for portable permits as well. And the second point in my 30 seconds has to do with consumption. We cannot have practical legalization without consumption areas. That is because it is illegal to consume publicly and while we have made possession legal, we have made illegal public consumption. Therefore we must have consumption areas not only for tourists and folks coming to San Francisco expecting that, but also for purposes of social justice. Were simply cutting and pasting the problem of selective enforcement. Thank you maam. Next speaker. Thank you supervisors. Doug block with Teamsters Joint Council 7. Thank you for being above and beyond the state on labor standards. Our goal has always been if the industry comes out of the shadows, the workers can choose union representation. To that end, we worked hard to shape the delivery model for cannibis to mirror liquor and beer drivers, including independent distributor from wholesaler to retail and requirement that deliveries be done by employees of permitted dispensaries with manifest for delivery and not independent contractors and thats important because independent contractors like uber drivers dont have the right to organize. Its an anti trust violation. Furthermore, drivers are frequently robbed of product and cash, there are strict product tracking requirements and there are a whole other host of reasons why an uber model, delivery model does not work. Let me say since people have asked, we worked on the state regulations with ease. Including working with them around the employee requirement. Here in San Francisco we have taken no position on their dynamic delivery model. Furthermore unfortunately at this time we have no labor piece agreements with any of the dispensaries they work with or are in discussion but hope that changes in the future. Thank you. Next speaker. Luke brunner, gilbert kinnard. Hi supervisors. Thank you for your work youre doing to keep us in business. Im a member of the california growers association. Im a local cultivator and own a manufacture for edibles. Its good you guys are looking at the prepermitting for the dispensaries but what about the supply chain. Supervisor sheehy was the only one who brought it up, not giving us temporary permits for edibles or current non conform zones, youre driving us out of city. We just signed on a building in oakland because they do have the permit in place. We operate edible manufacturing out of a well known cafes here in the city, we have a separate part in their kitchen and when they leave at 3 00 and close, we take over. How can i get that permitted for temporary use for january 1st. Essentially youre driving good businesses that have been here for over six years, weve been paying our taxes and delivery to San Francisco mcds but we are going to be down for business or move. Its a loss of corporate taxes and loss of good businesses use as a role model and were wondering why thats not in place i suppose when you take good care of the mcds. Who is going to supply them, breaking the supply chain essentially. So this you cant respond to me, its not a back and forth. But i want to point out thats why we introduced that today, what youre referring to specifically is another area dph governs on permitted businesses and were having a whole other conversation with them outside of the mcd conversation. It is very difficult to get accessory uses in the city, not just for you i understand that. But i think you under estimate how much the office of cannibis has on their work list. Theyre not going to get to all of these before january 1st. Thank you, next speaker. Im herald smith. I have been a patient since 1994. My story echos supervisor sheehys, we went through the same thing at the same time, part of the cohort of pioneer patients. I want to talk about safe consumption leads to compassion and compassion memorialized by regulation. Without financial subsidy, the compassion represents, many of us myself included would be unable to afford enough retail cannibis to maintain our regiment of health. Our industry will become nearly mercenary, lacking the vision, foundation and strength of purpose in our practice for many years. We would like to see compassionate cannibis remains a reality in practice and tenant of the long standing compassion philosophy Going Forward. Thank you. Honorable supervisors, im luke brunner and if i were chair i would leave before my comment, too. Firstly, i feel your public process thus far has been lacking and now at the 11th hour i want to commend supervisor fewer to getting into the difficult issue of sealed versus packaged and so forth. Thats a critical issue that an entire room full of Industry Experts has been bringing to your attention for weeks now. And they have thus far been but barely heard. I commend you for moving forward but perhaps not sufficiently enough and in enough time. Supervisor fewer, you have made a case for the necessity of increased access to consumption lounges. Similar to amsterdam and other cities where we see the unpackaged Product Available as some would say deli style or herbalist style. I think thats very important and what underlies this, a critical equity issue to address what has been otherwise lacking public process. That equity issue is the total number of sites available. Both for consumption and non consumption. You will have greater minority access. You will have greater local business access. You will have more engaged persons. Thank you. I still have 20 seconds left. If you extend my time i would love to dialogue about this with you. We have asked for this repeatedly and 74 of the voters, the San Francisco chronicle and every major media outlet has asked for this. I ask you to do the voters will. Justice delayed is justice denied. Gilbert im a disabled veteran and member of access of love. Dont let the shirt mistake you, im actually a local, the shirt is from Washington State, just the shirt i want to talk about compassion, theres clubs, i mean, youre talking about maintaining the integrity of the clubs, thats questionable. You have clubs now that offer buy two get one free as the Compassion Program. Thats not a Compassion Program if you have to buy two to get the third one free. Thats not compassion. Thats a rip off actually. The other problem with integrity, whether its packaged or not, you have to have what most businesses have, fair trade practices. If you label it as lettuce, it should be lettuce. If you buy cannibis that says its like 60 salt it should be. I see a lot of clubs, its hard to get ahold of. You go to the club and say i want saltiva. They give you Something Else and you lost 30 or 40. You would think thats pretty basic. If you go to the store and think youre buying oatmeal, you dont want to end up with corn meal. Whether its packaged or not, they need to be honest about what theyre doing. I just want to call up some other names. Joshua whites, susan king, johnny galiplane. Kendra sugar. Yes. Thank you supervisors for all the work you have done, the office of cannibis and everybody who has worked on the Equity Program. I run a Delivery Business here in San Francisco, my comments will center around the Equity Program and things i think need to be recognized. Im a life long San Francisco resident born in the Mission District youre joshua. Yes. I would like to say as somebody who has cannibis [indiscernible] i feel under equity it should be extending the recognized years from 1971 to 2009 and change it from 1971 to 2016 based on the data that even under decriminalzation, communities were still more likely to be arrested than White Brothers and sisters and i think that extension from 1971 to 2016 could loop those people into the Equity Program with cannibis felonies. And a critical component of the Equity Program is the licencing of consumption lounges for all the reasons discussed already. But to highlight it again, preventing the continued criminalzation of poc communities. Thank you. Hello supervisors. Im susan king, im a San Francisco resident and activist. First, i wanted to thank you guys, this committee as well as the board as a whole and the departments involved for thoughtful and detailed deliberation to create a comprehensive and rational policy framework dealing with this new and growing industry. A couple of talking points i wanted to bring up, one is i really appreciate the equity. I know this is probably more of a land use sitting but the Equity Program is really vital to getting this right. Making sure that the people who have suffered the most under the war on drugs have an opportunity to benefit from this new industry. To that point, it is really important that we allow access and the buffer zones by limiting the number of locations will really restrict the Equity Program because if you make it a limited supply, the people with the most access will be the people with the most resources. If you want the Equity Program to work, you have to keep with the state wide rules of 600 feet and i want to advocate for grandfathering in the pipeline applicants. There are a number of businesses who had their paperwork in place but did not have a hearing set. And then finally compassion is really important for medical cannibis users to have access to their medicine. Its not covered by insurance and so having a Compassionate Use Program is important. And finally portability. Its important that the permit be tied to the operator and not the landlord. We have seen numerous disputes around that. And lastly, six seconds, temporary permit to january 1st. We cant lag at the starting line. Thank you. Good afternoon. Im the director of access of love, i operated a Community Center for over 10 years with a Harm Reduction lounge. I want to really thank supervisor sheehy for starting the process of compassion. Theres still quite a bit to work out. Of course i would like it to say must, not may have a Compassion Program. And equity and access is equal to equity and ownership. Poor patients have been here on the front lines for the last 15 years trying to get that message out. When we look at the state of washington and i get calls from Patient Advocates there all the time saying its going to happen to you next and i say over my dead body are we going to have patients priced out of the system that we laid our bodies on the front line to create. Were not going to do that here. Compassion needs to be defined as free. Its not a marketing gimmick, buy one get one free. Buy this tshirt. No, we need to have Compassion Programs that are low impact to the neighborhoods, that have the integrity of the medicinal contact like supervisor fewer was mentioning, we need to put that into the law. And it is much like the traditional chinese herbalists where you have that contact and discussion about your medicine. Lets keep compassion going. There are other discussions to have around it which i look forward to having with the director. We have stand alone Compassion Programs and our basic goal today was just to not block any of the Compassion Programs. We have to enstate sanctuary status against 64 and things that want to push to adult use. The patients are still here, were still trying to survive. Thank you. Greetings supervisors. San francisco cannibis retailers alliance. I want to thank you for your patience in listening to Public Comment. I want to urge you to consider the industry and the task force as resources for you when you have additional questions. Addressing the loose flower issue supervisor fewer, often they do that with a flower bar, all the products you can buy loose are mandatory. I want to urge you to listen to the 74 of voters who want adult use implemented by january 1st and any bottleneck of temporary permits, perhaps they just have to file for the security plan before january 1st and the review process can take as long as it needs to. And i want to address the change of ownership restriction. This is important for all small entrepreneurs who have trouble raising money with cannibis. I have started seven companies and three have failed. Raising money is really hard and anything that gets in the way is going to make little operators not succeed. The big operators dont have a problem. But small operators need options, i have seen infighting between investors pull companies apart. Single investor is often the best choice for entrepreneur. And align with the core values and goals of the entrepreneur. Be able to roll up their sleeves and work with the entrepreneur. Have higher incentive, contrary to popular belief, not all new cannibis businesses are going to be Million Dollar businesses. Many of them will fail and we need to increase the change of ownership threshold for highest success. We have been asking for 49 thank you. Im going to read another list of speaker names. David goldman ryan miller, denise dori. Please come up here to speak. Good morning supervisors. Im the president of the cannibis organizers group. A few things i want to talk about, i want to talk about consumption lounges, right now under 64 its illegal to smoke anywhere or use cannibis anywhere in public, if we do its a 100 fine, tobacco smoking is fine. Its 250 fine where prohibited. If we dont have more lounges youre going to have people smoking in the streets and parks and im sure thats not something you want to enshrine. And i want to talk about compassion, it goes beyond low income people. Its important where they can get the specific medicine they need, not just swag or loose shake available at the end of the day by a dispensary. Each product has different Chemical Properties and each one is different and needs specific use for each person. In addition, theres a 50 tax increase coming approximately on january 1st from the state mandated 64. There will be a lot of people who will have sticker shock when their 40 an eighth goes to 90 an eighth. Unless you want to promote the black market and keep it alive and well, i strongly urge you have a Compassion Program for not just low income but average to low income as well. Thank you. Good morning. Thank you for your important work to create framework for legal cannibis and influencing inclusivity through equity and shake oakland policy. My name is ryan miller, i was born in San Francisco and earned a degree from golden gate university. Born into a single parent household, for me a private University Education was only accessible through a gi bill. My understanding of the honorable intentions of the medical cannibis base for the war on drugs. What i hope to impart on you, the military and prison complex intersect in the same low income communities. The same communities that contribute to the prison pipeline, also experience the military pipeline. In 1973 the military draft ended and what is known as the social economic draft. Those in low economic communiti communities clammer through sweat, tears, the blood of our nations enemies and blood of american heros. I invite you to allow the emerging cannibis community to empower an overlooked community, my ask is to expand to military veterans. Perhaps underserved veterans that receive less than Honorable Discharge for cannibis use could meet your standards for inclusion. Combat veterans are only 10 of the community. Perhaps they will earn your consideration. Thank you next speaker. Good morning. My name is shane. I want to thank you guys for listening to everybody before me and everybody after me. I want to talk about the Compassion Program. I want you to keep it in the state and make sure its safe for everybody. Im a poor patient and i would like to see the task force maybe have patients in there as well. Keeping room for everybody. And thank you for listening to me. Thank you. Yeah, we added the Compassion Program today. I appreciate you speaking on that. My name is denise dori, member of access love Compassion Community and produce six tv shows all about compassion. I want to ask you first on the top of the list, should be Compassion Programs for low income and no income, veterans and elders. Do you know any elders who dont have aches and pains and it prevents alzheimers and half this room will experience alzheimers whether its them or their parents. One out of two or three get it. So i dont even believe theres such thing as recreational. But since we have to work with what we have because 64 was written to decimated the compassionate community. Thats why it was written. We proved ourselves 20 years ago. It has been 20 years and dogs are still playing with cats i guess. So anyway compassion i can grow a pound of cannibis for 10. I know, i grow it outdoors and when you grow it outdoors, you can grow a pound for 10 it averages out. I figured out the cost for the water, soil, irrigation system figures in. Theres no real need we need to regulate greed. If we want to set an example for the world, we have been doing that every where else, we can do it here. We wouldnt have been vulnerable to putin if we regulated greed. I have lyme disease and i wont be eligible for a doctors letter. We need to strengthen parameters and include more conditions. We need to diversify the task force. I dont feel represented on the task force and nobody really understands what we go through. 16 was a success and dont let hate groups define us in San Francisco. Thank you. Next speaker please. Kendra saver, david mccarthy, michelle hi. I want to say thank you for the compassion. Yes, we need loose leaf. When you go to a pharmacist, isnt it loose in the bottles in the back already. Come on, its the same thing. Okay. We need patients on the task force so we are all represented, and 600 feet zone is thats it. This is ridiculous. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi, i want to first thank you for taking the time and really evaluating this process and figuring out what works best. As you see, theres a lot of people here who support this. And i really feel that it is important to provide consumption lounges for people to have a safe place to medicate and consume responsibly, so one its part of the healing process and two, theres people not consuming on the streets. If theres concern that it smells or its not comfortable, then having a place where people can go and consume it in a safe place, this will provide safety and an environment where its avoided and in a safe place. So i think that consumption lounges will be a great way for yeah, to allow this i think consumption lounges will be a great way where people can go and not consume outside. The more consumption lounges that are opened will prevent people from consuming outside. Its important not to have one or two or three. Its important to allow multiple consumption lounges. There will be multiple tourists here. Make sure you allow more than the amount open right now. Also its important to allow Equity Program and make sure you allow Equity Program, there has to be enough properties available. If theres not enough property available and the square foot is not appropriate, youre not going to have a great Equity Program. In my terrible speech i guess my point is to allow consumption lounges and enough of them and good Equity Program. Thanks. Thank you, next speaker. David mccarthy. Jan, michael cowen. Terrence allen. Im a veteran and member of access of love and operation evac which is a Veterans Group that means educating veterans about cannibis. I want to say its really important we get diversity and the task force to allow patient groups to have a say about compassionate care. And i know you are hearing some things over again, but its so important because the opposition gets up here and goes over and over again about their speel. And we need equity for the dispensaries as far as the footage, so that people can find optimal places to open up. And bottom line, Compassion Care for veterans, low and no Income Patients and seniors is very, very important. The dispensaries not only should be required to have Compassion Program, but they shouldnt be scared off by having to pay extra permit or tax or whatever to said program. I know they pay bulk tax when the medicine comes in the back door of current medical dispensaries, they shouldnt have to pay yet again to give it away. And so we just hope that you understand that principle that some people quit having Compassion Programs because it was financially not feasible anymore for them. And, you know, also i hope every dispensary that had to close because of federal issues and stuff that had great Compassion Programs four or five of them thank you sir. Next speaker. Michael cowen, terrence allen, nina parks, michael ledbetter. Good afternoon. My name is michael cowen. Im secretary of the democratic club. I want to make a suggestion, that is for with Compassion Program, how about tying it to medicare. That way you could track it, it would handle people who are already in the system and i think it would be practical way to manage a Compassion Program. Second point is i think were going to need more consumption lounges, we have eight in the city. Were going to have thousands of more patients medicating and we need to find a place where they can medicate safely and away from schools, parks and other locations where its not going to be allowed