Mayor Todd Gloria has announced that he is cutting Cannabis Social Equity from the San Diego City budget.  The council had previously allocated $1 million for its Social Equity and Economic Development program, or SEED. The program would have created opportunities for people who were criminalized for cannabis possession or sale in the past.  

The city’s own studies show Black and Latino residents experience a disproportionate number of cannabis-related arrests when compared to their population size and other races.  Killing the program would force the city to return an $880,000 grant it secured from the state to help potential equity program applicants pay for permit and legal fees, licenses and other expenses.

Tell Mayor Gloria and the City Council to honor their commitment to cannabis social equity by restoring funding to this important program that will create new opportunities for San Diego City residents and create more tax revenue to our city.