Conviction. Businesses that have otherwise been good actors can lose all of their investments and jobs at the whim of their landlords. As the city rolls out its article 16 license and moving away from article 33 we wanted to make sure we provided protection where possible especially for equity business applicants without providing openings for predator tee big money cannabis operators to push out Small Businesses or further incentivizing landlords to inconvict their tenants to turn a bigger profit. We worked very closely with both the department of cannabis and publichealth to make sure that we are both supporting the needs of vulnerable businesses and balancing that with making sure that this limited portability is narrow and specific enough to prevent abuse. This ordinance would authorization the director of the department of health to allow a gathered permit tee to change the associations with the permit with the following criteria are met. One, the permity submits a written request requesting the change and identifying the proposed new location. Two, the permity has been verified by the office of cannabis as an equity applicant. Three, the permity has been evicted from the location associated with the permit been notified that the lease at the location will be or has been terminated or not renewed. Four, the new location has an existing authorization for medical cannabis dispensary use. Five the the permity has complied with all applicable requirements of article 33 of the health code, the planning code and the police code with respect to the new location and six, the Planning Department department of building inspection, Mayors Office on disability, fire department, and office of cannabis, review and inspect the new location as required and report their determinations to the director and the director determines that the permity has satisfied all of these requirements. Additionally, our office in discussion with the departments, is requesting an amendment that adds a requirement the permity has been listed in the article 33 permit application submitted on or before january 25th, 2018 as an applicant or a person who would be engage in the management of the m. C. D. Again, the goal of this legislation is to further strengthen the ability of equity cannabis businesses to survive without creating loopholes for abuse and the knowledge this is in some ways a gap measure until the city has phased out its type 33 licenses. We believe more can and should be done to protect small cannabis retailers in s. F. And this legislation hopes to accomplish one small part of this work. I have copies of the amended legislation as well as an updated legislative gu digest tt outlines what i have presented to you. Thank you, well come grab those. Supervisor peskin do you have any questions for supervisor haneys staff . Would you like to hear from the office of cannabis or the department of publichealth or is that sufficient and ms. Majors handing around the amendments, if not, are there members of the public who would like to speak to item number 1 . Please, come forward. First speaker, come on up. Morning or afternoon. My name is bram goodwin. Im with the San Francisco social club and also the browny mayor democratic club. I want to start by welcoming my supervisor, because i live until the hait, dean preston. Its a thrill to see you here and i appreciate your service. Thank you. I urge the support this item so that relief, one of our legacy cannabis dispensaries can relocate. Service their local customers including many medical users like myself. Relief was one of the original cannabis dispensaries when there were future choices. Which being around then helped me buy Legal Cannabis. We are now two years into cannabis legalization which has brought some positives, such as legalization, giving us our rights, lab testing, some new dispensary openings. But, it is brought my much higher prices to consumers. Very high cannabis taxes leading to greater market share fort Illegal Cannabis market. Slow roll out of additional cannabis businesses due to red tape. The lack of compassion programs due to legal issues. In the concern that some new equity dispensaries could be back doors for national change. That is why it is important to approve this agenda item so one of our local communitybased dispensaries will be able to continue to service this community. I would urge all of the supervisors to read the recently released control report on the state of San Francisco cannabis. To take a closer look how this newly emerging industry forming. Help guide it to a consumerfriendly local based enterprise. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Hi, my name is gilbert and im a disabled veteran. I believe you should reward a good behavior. The relief is one of the few clubs that is honored 2 15. Ive gone to clubs and they have no idea what im talking about when i ask for my discount. Anyway, theyre one of the good players and it would be sad to is he them go. Reward good behavior. Grandfather them in and also, theyre also into compassion, equalization, and legacy. Anyway, the thing is that right now, over 100 veterans are benefiting from their compassion program. You are going to hear from some of the veterans here. Theyre in the evac program. You know, you know about our veterans getting shortchanged by the federal government. Its good to be able to give them a break once in a while. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you, next speaker. Good afternoon, committee members. My name is greg. Im a former Harm ReductionService Director of access to love sf. Cofounder of the black and brown cannabis possie. A group of concerned medical Cannabis Patients dedicated to preserving Compassion Services as well as our legacy dispensaries. We stand in support of supervisor mainlys legislative situation legislation im sorry. Solution, im sorry, in order to preserve one of our legacies dispensaries. I have had the privilege to work with hiedi and the relief team, which i might say, she and her crew has been in the business of serving our community for over 15 years. And have supported Compassionate Services with us at access to love and throughout the city. Let hiedi and the relief dispensary be a rule instead of an exception. And ones again, thank you supervisor haney for your leadership, and thank you for your consideration. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker. Access of love sf cannabis Harm Reduction and we were next door neighbors to the relief club. Relief were great neighbors hoping to improve our block and generous supporters of all patients sad vow k advocacy gron francisco. Theyre part of legacy group of San Francisco which excuse me. Which upheld traditional compassion values. We urge your vote yes on today and we are looking forward to the City Attorney developing a plan of Restorative Justice for all the legacy, medical cannabis dispensaries and compassion programs. Lets move forward with legacy and equity and compassion reparations. Thank you. My name is larry ferie. Im getting locked up here. Just reading the paper today, in this paper they have an article on the marijuana problem in the sense that theyre going to raise the tax on marijuana again, higher, which makes it hard for shops and stuff to sell marijuana because there are less shops around and more people are going to buy illegal marijuana. Theyre going to kill themselves with things that have been stepped on, drugs that have been put into these illegal drugs, you know, are killing these people. Its not the marijuana clubs, which are certified, their dope is been tested. Its like ok, so most of the cities dont want marijuana clubs. But then that means permit. It would be better for the health of the veterans and stuff. Im taking marijuana right now and stuff because i have a lot of problems. Im 78yearsold. I need this drug. We need a place where we can buy these drugs legally. Thats why im here. Thank you. Supervisor peskin next speaker. Good afternoon, land use and transportation committee. My name is june bug and im born and raised here in San Francisco. Im a San Francisco voter and i live in district 5. Congratulations, dean preston. Im here as a Cannabis Patient today and im also the cochair of the rose kenyan group. Im in support of this permit because this deals with having safe access to our medicine. 350 face closure and that was one dispensary that provided safe and Affordable Access to medicine, a. K. A. Cannabis. In 2012, patients faced another crisis of losing a lot of the legacy dispensaries that provided safe access. To Cannabis Medicine for marginalized patients for San Francisco. So relief was actually one of the few dispensaries that actually was still providing Compassionate Services to the community of over 15 years. So having this permit is vital. Its a vital asset to our community and it continues the legacy of providing safe and Affordable Access to real patients who nee need it. Thank you. Supervisor peskin next speaker. Hi, im kendra sagger. Back in 2015, i had 14 heart attacks. I died 12 times. I am on s. S. I. I cannot afford cannabis at the higher prices in the taxes. Relief is always been somewhere where i can go and get help. Please help them. They closed down. We need help and compassion. We need to quit dem onizing weed and marijuana. Its not a killer, its medicine and i need it. Please help us. Supervisor peskin next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is gabrielle. I was an employee at relief herbal cooperative. Man, its been six years since ive been around there and wasnt an employee for six years but just being around them and getting to know people they gave me the opportunity to be a part of their family. Were looking forward to hopefully coming back and continuing on building a new community somewhere. We built an Awesome Community the past six years when i was able to see everything. Hopefully everything goes good today. We can continue on and get our jobs back and move forward. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you, necnext speaker. Show your support by waving your fingers. Good afternoon. Im edward from the o. E. G. This legislation before you is about keeping this citys legacy and equityowned medical cannabis dispens dispensary frog dease placed through no fault of their own. Its an equity owned dispensary thats been a pillar in the community for 15 years. They have served the medical community faithfully. They have provided affordable cannabis products for our citys low income, they hire locally and provide a great wage. They have a Community Plan that serves veterans and provides mentorship for equity applicants. The owner of relief is born and raised in San Francisco and is always run their operations compliant with all city and state requirements. I can personally say that they deeply care about their business, they care about their employees and the city they come from. Please vote yes on this legislation to keep relief of San Francisco institution and their employees from permanent displacement. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you, next speaker. Good afternoon, im john glen with access of love. He would remind you of the socially conscious Business Practices that relief has engage in. They have helped at Risk Communities and their closure has harmed at Risk Communities. So i would strongly urge you to green light their relocation so they can resume the help and support that theyve given to those who are ill and those who are low income. So they can resume what theyve been doing all these years so well. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you, next speaker. Hello. My name is denise dory. I serve district 6, primarily we support a quick fix for the legacy club relief, which is based in the district 6 area and its based in equity and compassion and has, without any problems, served our area and improved neighborhood safety. We also urge the City Attorney to immediately recede the handful of legacy clubs that served our locals, patients and consumers successfully for so long. We know how successfully because we see what is happening to folks without them. Its not pretty. And so, we are very concerned that Legal Cannabis is not affordable and equity and compassion are not being preserved by the because of the difficulty in relocating our legacy providers. So, im in favor of grandfathering relief legacy dispensary they have been participating and advocating for compassionate programs. And many non legacy dispensaries are priced too high and theyre more focused towards the tourists, thank you for your time. Thank you, next speaker. Good afternoon, my name is reece benton. I am also a womanowned cannabis business here in San Francisco soon so open. When i started using cannabis again, relief was the second club i went to here in San Francisco. And then eventually when i got into the business, i met hiedi anshe has helped me. I went to her as a mentor and she gave me her resources. I dont see her as a competitor but a legacy and we need these people that started cannabis to be around because they are the leaders and theyve been doing this and we need old people or grand fathers in this business because theyve been here from the start and they knows the inns and outs. I feel, as a business owner, and the same sector, that her not being able our relief not being able to move on to another location is a disservice to everybody. I mean, it would be unfair. Im not open but i dont want to see another club go down and not be open and not be able to service their patients because its really the patients get attached to people and you have a bond. It would be a disservice for her not to be able to give her patients the medicine and for her not to be able to mentor more people and for her to be stagnant while were opening and shes not. I hope you vote yes on this because its well deserved and if shes not moving on, we shouldnt be moving on. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker. Good morning. My name is david im a disabled American Veteran born in San Francisco. I believe that we need relief to help with more affordable cannabis. It helps with arthritis, stress, everything. Before this medical cannabis, my personal, i usually do not patronize a lot of these cannabis dispensaries because theyre much too expensive. Years ago, i would go to dalores park in the 70s. Now, today, it should be more affordable for veterans, people accessible to help the public and im standing behind backing cannabis for relief. Ive been at relief before and ive been at a few different cannabises clubs in the past. From my experience, theyre very expensive and the real crime would be when theyre out on the street. People are fighting. Thats the problem. And relief, thats what we need. Thank you. Have a good day. Thank you, next speaker, please. Hello, my name is franco. Im a vietnam vet. Ive been on opioids for 20 some years. Through the v. A. Hospital and the use of cannabis i was able to get off of opioids. I feel much better. Its really cannabis is one of the things that really has saved my life, i believe. It helped me get through the vietnam war and it helped me through all the pain and suffering that i had after the war. I have very, very low income. I cant really afford cannabis or the stuff i need. And they have places like relief that helps us. We are, as veterans, have helped you guys in the past so will you please help relief to help us so we can feel better and end the suffering. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you, next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is timo and im a San Francisco native born and raised. I also am a cannabis business owner. Ive been displaced from San Francisco. I cant afford to live here and i cant afford to do cannabis business here so i had to go to it would be a misery if original San Francisco people like this cant continue to have business here. Dont let them leave like i had to leave. They are helping these people and theyve been here from the beginning. They are hiring people from the neighborhood when they were in the mission. Im here to say this needs to be passed. It should be a formality and i hope it will already go through. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, board. My name is arrow. Im a San Francisco native. Im a former member of the board of Mental Health seat number 12 i held for six years, i termed out after six years. I am here to speak for new relief for the veterans that are in here. Im a veteran along with a lot of my other veterans who are here along with me. People that i live with. We all go to new relief and we have been going to new relief from the beginning. I have came from living in the streets to living in tenderloin to getting a suitable housing with my other veterans. I live in the veterans commons and its a very nice place. And through new relief, i was able to rise up and come from these depths of being homeless and going and living in tenderloin and ratinfested hotels to living decent and through new relief, i was able to get help with my Mental Illness through acupuncture and they have different types of therapies that they do there and its been a lifesaver for me and i know a lot of other veterans here in have the same thing to say. Please, please, help new reloaf. Next speaker. How are you doing . As well as a veteran myself 2311 ammunition peck mission. What is going on is that dal provides, the ownership of relief provides not only help and support for other Small Businesses like myself who have the ability to hire employees and helping other families using another different context it also basically gives people the ability to do what theyre all begging you for which is theyre begging you not to push them to heroine or towards opioids and theyre bigging you to help them maintain their self respect and their dignity as long abiding citizens to purchase a good they feel helps them with everything from post Traumatic Stress all the way up to the daily rigors of things we face on a daily basis. The only thing that we know and this particularir