Costa Mesa could soon have more than 70 cannabis dispensaries, despite only having around 20 pharmacies and drug stores, according to a city document. Costa Mesa currently has no legal cannabis dispensaries, according to the city’s spokesperson, Tony Dodero. The city has not placed a cap on the number of retail cannabis businesses allowed. After the city began accepting applications for the first phase of dispensaries Aug. 12, with the second phase beginning Sept. 13, 70 different storefront and delivery applications have surged into the city’s portal, with more likely to come. Costa Mesa’s approximate 20 drugstores are mostly CVS and Rite Aids, among a few other lesser-known brands. The applications come as Costa Mesa citizens passed Measure X in 2016, which allows certain non-retail cannabis uses such as manufacturing, distribution, processing, transportation, and more in an industrial area of the city, north of the 405 freeway and west of …