Redding police are preparing to enforce regulations designed to yank illicit marijuana dealers from the medical cannabis clubs that have sprouted around the city

Redding Police Chief Peter Hansen talks with Cindy Diezsi, left, program manager with the Shasta County Chemical People, and Frank Augusta, owner of the Safe Arbor, medical marijuana collective, after the Redding City Council meeting on Tuesday night. Hansen said they were discussing the specifics of the city's new marijuana ordinance. Photo by Andreas Fuhrmann/Record-Searchlight

Redding Police Chief Peter Hansen talks with Cindy Diezsi, left, program manager with the Shasta County Chemical People, and Frank Augusta, owner of the Safe Arbor, medical marijuana collective, after the Redding City Council meeting on Tuesday night. Hansen said they were discussing the specifics of the city's new marijuana ordinance. Photo by Andreas Fuhrmann/Record-Searchlight

over the past eight months.

“It will be a drain on our resources to manage this for a while, until we narrow down the medical marijuana collectives,” Police Chief Peter Hansen says in this Redding Record-Searchlight article.

The ordinance, approved Tuesday on a 3-2 vote, has consumed at least 50 hours of the Police Department’s time already, Hansen said.
The major work crunch will come in January when police begin conducting inspections that will determine which of the city’s 30 to 40 cannabis dispensaries stay open.

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