Ventura Co. BOS Recommendations on Adult Use Cannabis and Hemp

See full agenda at http://bosagenda.countyofventura.org/sirepub/agdocs.aspx?doctype=agenda&itemid=86064 SUBJECT: Recommendation of Supervisor Zaragoza and Supervisor Parks to Provide Direction to Staff Regarding the Preparation of an Ordinance Regulating or Banning Commercial Activities Associated with Adult/Recreational Use of Marijuana and Industrial Hemp in Unincorporated Ventura County. SUPERVISOR RECOMMENDATIONS: 1. DIRECT Resource Management Agency (RMA) to prepare an Ordinance expressly prohibiting in unincorporated Ventura County the operation of retailers, distributors, microbusinesses for, and the commercial cultivation and manufacturing of, marijuana for Adult/Recreational use as regulated under Proposition 64, Marijuana Legalization Initiative Statute 2. DIRECT RMA to work with the Agricultural Commissioner and other appropriate agencies to develop regulations to allow for the cultivation, manufacturing, and processing of industrial hemp and return to the Board with an analysis and preliminary recommendations.