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Atascadero City Council to consider allowing cannabis retail stores

October 14, 2025

By KAREN VELIE

The Atascadero City Council is scheduled on Tuesday to discuss permitting retail cannabis stores in the city.

In February, the city council directed staff to bring forward a discussion regarding the potential for retail pot sales within the city. City staff estimates doing so could result in $500,000 to $1 million in tax revenue before expenses.

However, the staff report also warns the council of an unstable marijuana industry.

“In California, the retail cannabis industry is in a state of flux, marked by financial struggles for legal
businesses, intense competition from a thriving illicit market, and shifting tax policies,” according to the staff report. “While the legal market continues to grow in terms of production and units sold, sales revenue is declining, leading to consolidation and business failures.”

 


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Hopefully city officials will not follow the same disastrous path of Grover Beach and others and spend the projected revenue and instead wait for actual revenue and then spend only that money and know that will change every year and accept that the budgeted items the pot money was spent on might have to be cut if revenue falls.


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Drive high, get a DUI.


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THE CITIZENS OF ATASCADERO say, “NO!”


Dopers are dopes!


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I suggest that Atascadero stand by and watch Paso make fools of themselves just like they did with paid parking. It never penciled.


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The government before 2018: “Cannabis is bad!”


The government to the government in 2018: “We can tax the hell out of cannabis and make a bunch of money!”


Also the government in 2018: “Cannabis is just fine, it can be sold legally in store fronts”


Cannabis should be legal for adults. A decision to use is between you and yourself. Just hypocrisy by government when they see a pay day by having their greedy hands involved.


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