The battle on the future of Ganja in Chicago went to the city council on Thursday, a week after Mayor Brandon Johnson helped the state law to strictly license, tax and often regulate high catalysis products.
As Alderman attended a council committee meeting with ganja vendors and marijuana dispensary owners, the council appeared away from the agreement on the safety and fairness of potential local rules and fair – despite all the parties agreeing that the currently irregular products who are currently irregular products Ban can withstand high.
While no vote was taken on Thursday, the possibility of an ordinance to allow the continuous widespread sale of cannabis in Chicago won an important initial indication of approval from Johnson administration.
The city should take unprecedented steps to add ganja rules which “mirror regulations” on substances like alcohol and marijuana, Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Olusimbo IGE told Alderman.
“At the city level, we usually do not determine the standards. We follow the FDA’s instructions, ”Egga said. “At this time we have the problem that there is no direction from the FDA.”
IGE’s recommendations included retailer permits and licenses, adding testing requirements of products and packaging rules. He also recommended “strict control of the contaminants” and maximum dose rules. Some of those rules would require “partnership beyond the city” to implement, he said.
While most of the discussion focused around security, control over taxes levied on the widely eaten products on the debate.
Earlier this month, Johnson’s team launched a high-ex-lobbying push to block the Pritzkar-backed state Ganja law, which had almost no opposition to the state Senate. Smoke shops and other stores that sell ganja products, they argued that the law was so restrictive that it would exclude many of them from business.
The law was not brought to the Illinois House for votes. At that time, Elded. William Hall-The first time he proposed a ganja tax as a possible way to earn more revenue to the city-now the Stald Bill is called a push to pass “political bullying”.
As he led the hearing on Thursday, the hall did not share an ordinance, in which he and IGE recommended. He did not share tax proposals on products, despite incorporating five years of revenue estimates on a potential ganja tax in November.
The hearing of the city council’s no-votes to detect ganja regulation follows a barrage of news conferences with the interests of competition.
First, a group of owners of the marijuana business argued that they would be incorrectly reduced if Chicago gives validity to the sales of hemp with customized regulation. Speakers, formed with Illinois’s Cannabis Business Association, called for regulating Ganja under the same rules that state the marijuana sales.
“If it gets you high, it should be regulated under the canbis regulation of Illinois,” said Reese Xavier, the owner of HT23 producers. “This product should not have a separate and special deal.”
At a later news conference, several Aldermen accused of separating safety concerns for the purpose of bringing more flat and Johnson into revenue more flat for the sale of ganja products. Ganja products have dangerous and hard-to-type contaminants and are often marketed towards adolescents, they argued.
“You cannot keep your morality aside because the city wants to make a deer,” Ald. Silavana Tabaras said. The 23rd, Tabrace passed the law earlier this month to effectively block the sale of future ganja product from its southwest side ward. Many other Aldermen have indicated that they are interested in implementing their own ward-level cannabis ban if strict regulation on products is not physical.
But the hall, 6th, insisted at his own news conference that his bid for ganja regulation “is not an opportunity for blood money.” Dozens of smoking shops selling ganja products should not be “punished” or “destroyed” by strict rules that are stalled at the state level.
The hall said that the state -backed state law would be “prohibited” on law ganja. He argued that the bill is actually a shock to box out shops selling ganja products by rich Marijuana companies.
“Disagreement is who wants the owner of the industry,” he said. “This is greed.”
After hearing the Department of IGE and Vocational Affairs and Consumer Protection Commissioner Ivan Capifali, it was described how the rules can work, Ald. 40th, Andre Waskes said that he suspects that the city is the right body to control Ganja.
Vaske’s questioned whether the city could properly maintain the chemical test, one of the many new responsibilities may need to be facilitated.
“I’m not very confident that the city can actually execute it,” he said. “There are just a lot of challenges.”