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All is not well in the City of Trees, my friends. The rot of organized crime stains the hallowed halls of Sactown City Hall; clowns are running the circus. WL can smell the stink of corruption a mile away; Sacramento is not well folks. The state of our cannabis in our city is stale, son; moldy and pathetic.
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Welcome back to another winter of long shadows and high hopes; welcome to another year of waiting for utopia; waiting for hell to freeze over. ~ The The
It’s been unlawful from the beginning folks. Read it for yourself; the City ordinance clearly prohibits the transfer of ownership of any dispensary permit, whether “directly or indirectly.”
Here is the code:
Sacramento City Code Section 5.150.050 – Permits not transferable. “Cannabis business permits issued pursuant to this chapter are not property and have no value. Cannabis business permits may not be transferred, sold, assigned or bequeathed expressly or by operation by law. Any attempt to directly or indirectly transfer a cannabis business permit shall be unlawful and void and shall automatically revoke the permit. (Ord. 2017-0046 § 1)”
According to the official city code (below), a permit has no value; and transfer of a cannabis business permit “shall be unlawful and void”, and “shall automatically revoke” the (offending) permit. No jury trial, no appeal, nothing; just gone. If a permit is transferred its void; revoked end of discussion.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Now, here is the first bombshell revelation folks; according to state documents; 25(+) out of 30 dispensary permits have been willfully and intentionally transferred in a city facilitated “pay to play” scheme which violates local ordinance.
At Weezyleaks; we have confirmed the transfer of more than 25 dispensary permits and we can back-up our reporting with state records to prove it.
The city code does not allow appeal or discretion by officials or anyone, on the matter; therefore, each transferred permit is technically and automatically terminated upon execution of the offending transaction, thereby making each transferred permit null and void; CURRENT STATUS INVALID.
What does that mean? Well, this is significant folks, because the transfer of ownership, as we have noted, is a direct violation of the local ordinance.
State law requires two permits (local & state), to lawfully conduct commercial sales of weezy. With a few exceptions not discussed here, state law requires that each state permit holder must hold a local permit, and comply with local ordinance, before it will authorize a new state permit or renew an existing state permit.
As we have noted, each transferred permit has failed to comply with the local ordinance, and because every transferred permit is automatically terminated without appeal upon transfer, therefore each transferred permit is therefore operating without any valid permit in direct violation of local ordinance and state law.
TAKE NOTE: Recently in 2019, the city allowed some dispensaries to “move” to new locations in a very suspect pattern, which ultimately crowds downtown. The city has authorized existing dispensaries to move to new locations, and then subsequently authorized other dispensaries to back-fill into the same properties the original dispensaries vacated.
None of this makes sense to us. WL suspects there is a duplicitous reason behind this activity; and believes this could be result of even more unlawful permit transfers. Investigation is underway.
DID CITY OFFICIALS ABUSE THEIR DISCRETION AND POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY BY TURNING A BLIND EYE?
Now are you ready for the next bombshell? The Cannabis Management department admitted during a city sponsored audit to knowingly and willfully allowing every single transfer to happen despite the prohibition from doing so.
City Hall intentionally and actively approved and facilitated each unlawful transfer since from approximately 2010; until present without the required over-site and policy management enforcement.
Our money says that the city did more than just “allow” the scheme to operate by incompetence and dumb ignorance; that’s too convenient. WL believes the “pay to play” scheme was facilitated from within; intentionally and by design.
WL has previously reported and confirmed the scheme was implemented by Brad Wasson, and carried out by recently terminated cannabis chief Joe Devlin. Furthermore, evidence exists which indicates the unlawful scheme is still in play today.
Hard to say if the new cannabis chief Davina Smith is involved. At this point WL doesn’t have an opinion, one way or the other; we assume the custom continues uninterrupted through selective enforcement and shoddy oversite in the hands of the historically corrupt and inept city manager’s office.
DON’T BLINK … THERE’S MORE; BOOM!
City Hall has intentionally allowed unlawful consolidation of most, if not all of the transferred permits into the hands of a very few individuals posing as legit corporations; effectively creating a cartel of american oligarchs that control and manipulate the Sacramento Valley by way of a city hall facilitated monopoly.
Concentration of so many permits into the hands of creates a monopoly. Technically it is a “oligopoly,” but for now and the sake of simplicity we’ll call it a monopoly.
THE CITY REFUSES TO ENFORCE THE ORDINANCE AND WILL NOT TERMINATE OFFENDING PERMITS
City Hall recently admitted to allowing the consolidation of dispensary permits; providing no justification for the mismanagement of city dispensary permits.
The City has doubled down, despite it’s historically bad judgement calls and mismanagement of cannabis policy. Without apology the City has publicly stated that the offending permits despite blatant violations will not be terminated, because well … shit happens.
Let that soak right in; let it marinate. Swish it around; how does that taste? Not good, huh? Go, ahead spit it out.
The city publicly refuses to do its job and enforce the local ordinance. WL believes the city does not have discretion and must terminate the offending permits and encourages the public to join with us and hold our city officials accountable to the ordinance.
Demand an audit with public over-site, and terminate any concentration of offending permit(s).
In this 6-part report, WL will breakdown the issues caused by this monopoly, and what effects it has on the Sacramento Valley cannabis market. In the next installment of our 6-part mini-series, WL will identify who is responsible for this outrage; and who controls the monopoly today. All that we’ll cover in-depth, the 2nd part of our 6-part series on this fascinating story.
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