San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has signed legislation that allows the city\u2019s licensed cannabis retailers to serve food and nonalcoholic beverages inside their consumption lounges.<\/p>\n
Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman introduced the ordinance in March after more than a year of collaboration between his office, state Assemblymember Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, and city agencies including the Office of Cannabis<\/a> and the Planning Department, according to Mandelman\u2019s office.<\/p>\n The ordinance creates a permit that cannabis retailers can pair with their existing licenses to prepare and serve food and drinks for on-site consumption alongside cannabis. Alcohol and tobacco remain barred from the premises.<\/p>\n Cafe operators must hold a consumption permit from the city\u2019s Department of Public Health, meet the same health and food code standards as other food establishments, and verify each customer\u2019s age electronically at the door. For the first year, only existing retailers and their equity partners can apply for the new permits.<\/p>\n \u201cCannabis cafes are part of this city\u2019s recovery, right alongside our entertainment zones, neighborhood activation, and free concerts.\u201d<\/p>\n Supervisor Rafael Mandelman<\/p>\n San Francisco has issued 79 cannabis retailer permits, of which 66 were active earlier this year. State regulators estimate roughly 60% of cannabis sold in California still moves through the unlicensed market, a gap city officials cited in pushing to give legal operators new ways to compete.<\/p>\n \u201cThis legislation clears a path for our industry to create a full-service cannabis hospitality experience, diversify our businesses, and provide our customers with safe, highly regulated spaces,\u201d William Dolan, CEO of the HYRBA dispensary<\/a> in San Francisco\u2019s Sunset District, said in a statement.<\/p>\n The ordinance was authored by the board president Mandelman and implements a 2024 state law from Haney that authorized cities to allow Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes. The ordinance passed its first reading July 7 before the Board of Supervisors granted final approval, sending it to Lurie\u2019s desk. San Francisco is the first city in the Bay Area to adopt the model, according to Mandelman\u2019s office.<\/p>\n \u201cCannabis cafes are part of this city\u2019s recovery, right alongside our entertainment zones, neighborhood activation, and free concerts,\u201d Mandelman said.<\/p>\n The Small Business Commission voted 5-1 in April to support the legislation, and the Planning Commission followed with unanimous supporting findings the next month, before the full board passed the measure this month.<\/p>\n The post San Francisco mayor clears way for cannabis cafes serving food, nonalcoholic drinks<\/a> appeared first on Local News Matters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has signed legislation that allows the city\u2019s licensed cannabis retailers to serve food…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-415807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}