Here’s what it looks like when a town uses a lottery system for marijuana business licenses

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By Courtney TompkinsLong Beach Press-Telegram

Officials often boast about doing things the Long Beach way, and Thursday’s lottery drawing for medical marijuana licenses was no different.

Shortly after 9 a.m., officials kicked off a process inside City Hall that would allow a limited number of applicants to move toward opening a dispensary in town. It began with City Clerk Monique DeLaGarza opening sealed bags of lottery balls that had been stored inside a safe until Thursday. Each ball was assigned a number that matched an address where an applicant sought to open a medical marijuana dispensary.

She placed the balls, one by one, on top of a brand new lottery machine before dropping them into a clear basin with a steady stream of air shuffled them around. The first 10 numbers drawn that did not violate buffer zones (more than 1,000 feet from an already approved dispensary) were allowed to move forward… Read more at The Cannabist


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