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Cannabis entrepreneurs agree to drop lawsuit over ‘flawed’ licensing process

July 9, 2020
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Cat Packer, executive director of L.A.’s Department of Cannabis Regulation, speaking at Los Angeles City Hall in 2017.  (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

Cannabis entrepreneurs have agreed to drop a lawsuit over Los Angeles’ bitterly contested process for handing out licenses, after the city agreed to process more of the applicants vying to open new shops.

The Social Equity Owners and Workers Assn. and one of its members sued the city in April, arguing that the application process to open new shops was fatally flawed. Hundreds of people flooded the first-come, first-served system within minutes, hoping for a shot at just 100 licenses.

The association contended that more than 200 applicants who accessed an online platform before 10 a.m. — the official start time for applications — got an unfair edge over others who waited until 10 a.m. to log on. It had pushed for the city to stop handing out licenses for new shops as its lawsuit played out in court.

The group argued that “it is fundamental to any fair race that the competitors must start at the same time or, at the very least, be given accurate information about when the race will begin.”

City attorneys countered that few people actually started their applications before 10 a.m. and that Los Angeles pushed their applications back in line to where they would be if they had started on time — a process it called “normalization.” L.A. also pointed to an audit that found the city took reasonable and appropriate steps to prevent unfairness.

Halting the rollout of licenses for new shops as the lawsuit played out would only “allow the illicit market to gain a stronger foothold in the community in the meantime” and hurt entrepreneurs waiting to open their businesses, the city argued.

This week, a group of successful applicants also sought to intervene in the case, arguing that halting the licensing process or overturning it would hurt them financially. Some competitors, they argued, had simply been quicker to apply.

Under the settlement agreement with the Social Equity Owners and Workers Assn., L.A. agreed to make changes to its cannabis rules, including vetting the next 100 applications that were in line for licenses — possibly doubling the number of licensees from this round of applications.

Those changes were approved by the City Council last week, after the association signed off on the settlement. Mayor Eric Garcetti signed the agreement this week.

Kika Keith, co-founder of the association, called it “a great victory for us.” She is among the applicants in L.A.’s social equity program, which aims to help cannabis entrepreneurs from communities hit hardest by the war on drugs.

To Read The Rest Of This Article By Emily Alpert Reyes on Los Angeles Times
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Published: July 08, 2020

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