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The Cannabis industry is experience normal economic growing pains. They over produced driving down prices, now supply/demand is coming into balance with high prices. No tax relief should be provided for normal business cycles.

Sonoma County’s North Bay Credit Union points to cannabis banking for record growth, yet the cannabis industry wants a tax break!

The Cannabis industry has come to both Sonoma County and the State of California asking for tax relief. The industry claims the recent drop in prices makes their cultivation taxes unaffordable. Taxes are not their real problem and tax relief in not the real long term solution.

Senator McGuire has proposed a state-wide tax break for cannabis on the basis of the project budget excess - we ask if this if this is really how CA should be spending a (rare) windfall!

In February, the Board of Supervisors was asked to consider a Tax Break for the Cannabis Industry with scant data or evidence present for many of the "facts" cited. We posed 8 key questions Permit Sonoma that be believe HAVE TO BE answered before the county can even have a real conversation about the economics of cannabis.