LAGUNA WOODS, Calif.—The Laguna Woods City Council voted 4–1 on April 20 to move forward a tax on cannabis businesses, despite the city’s existing ban on retail cannabis.
Mayor Carol Moore, who is up for reelection this year, was the dissenting vote.
The ordinance—which will need final approval from the city council at their May 18 meeting—would place a measure on the November ballot to tax cannabis businesses in the city.
Such an ordinance would not lift the city’s ban on retail cannabis, but it would place regulations on cannabis businesses if the city were to lift the ban in the future.
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