Novato considering cannabis storefronts & lounges
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● Novato has 2 delivery businesses to serve adult customers (10 total in Marin)
● City Council exploration committee: allowing up to two cannabis storefronts.
● Possible onsite consumption/lounge
Current cannabis delivery model works
● No issue with adult access in Marin
● Allows for easy and personalized adult shopping
● Aligns with the rest of Marin jurisdictions ○ (united shared policy)
● Avoids unintended consequences of storefront sales
TODAY'S CANNABIS
“I smoked when I was a kid and nothing happened to me.”
“I smoked when I was a kid and nothing happened to me.”
This is what you smoked
This is what you smoked
4% - 7% THC
This is what they smoke
This is what they smoke
25% - 35% THC
New products: cannabis concentrates
THC is extracted and concentrated to a potency of 50 - 90+% THC
● Vapes
● Deb pens
Wax, shatter, budder, oils, crystals (diamonds)
“That’s not how I remember marijuana…..”
Flavored cannabis products attracting youth
● California banned flavored tobacco vaping products to address the youth vaping epidemic
● However, the cannabis industry is using the same tactic as Big Tobacco to attract kids.
Flavor ban does NOT apply to cannabis vapes
DATA ON STOREFRONTS
Storefront availability and increased use.
Two Oregon studies found in towns with cannabis storefronts, adolescents had greater:
● cannabis use
● cannabis use with alcohol
● perceived cannabis availability
● lower perceived risk
● perceived parental approval
Towns with less cannabis retail availability had lower youth use
2024 Large northern CA study w/ Kaiser Permanente:
● Adolescents in areas with less retail cannabis availability
● associated with a lower prevalence of cannabis use & problematic use.
● Longer drive time associated with less use by youth.
WHY IT MATTERS
(the harms to youth)
Addiction
Cannabis Use Disorder (CUD)
The young brain is more vulnerable to addiction.
17% to 30+% of users under age 18 who using cannabis at least once a week (with highest prevalence among daily users) develop cannabis use disorder.
Teen and young adult suicide
Youth Suicide
PSYCHOSIS
Should we be concerned about Marin youth use?
WHAT YOU CAN DO?
Keep lower youth access to high potency cannabis by not expanding the marketplace
Keep lower youth access to high potency cannabis by not expanding the marketplace
Delivery-only cannabis
Delivery-only cannabis
No new storefront
No new storefront
Protect smoke-free air progress:
Protect smoke-free air progress:
No on-site consumption or outdoor licenses
No on-site consumption or outdoor licenses
Take Action
● Speak up, share the evidence
● Write to city council members
○ www.novato.org/government/city-council
● Write to staff
● Exercise our collective responsibility to protect kids
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