{"id":7223,"date":"2017-12-18T11:42:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T19:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=7223"},"modified":"2017-12-18T11:42:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T19:42:16","slug":"public-bank-owned-san-francisco-gains-traction-cannabis-deadline-nears-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/12\/18\/public-bank-owned-san-francisco-gains-traction-cannabis-deadline-nears-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Public bank to be owned by San Francisco gains traction as cannabis deadline nears"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two San Francisco city supervisors are pushing the city to open its own public bank, in a bid to give cannabis business owners a place to bank safely.\u00a0 BRENT LEWIN\/BLOOMBERG<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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By\u00a0Riley McDermid<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Digital Producer, San Francisco Business Times<\/div>\n
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Two San Francisco city supervisors are pushing the city to open its own public bank, in a bid to keep the city from being too involved with large commercial banks and as a way to give cannabis business owners a place to bank safely.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco Examiner reports<\/a>\u00a0that Supervisors\u00a0Malia Cohen<\/a>\u00a0and Sandra Fewer have been studying the idea and even asked for a Budget Analyst report on how the city might launch its own bank, which the city has the legal authority to do. You can\u00a0read the full text of that report here.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThis ongoing public banking discussion is coming at an important moment in our community,\u201d Cohen said last week, the paper reports. “… In our long cannabis discussion, we have barely acknowledged that cannabis is currently an all-cash business \u2014 cash payroll, no banking, vaults of bills on the floors of retailers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If San Francisco did create a public bank, it would be the first city in the nation to have one; the only other state-owned and operated bank in the country is the Bank of North Dakota.<\/p>\n

The issue isn’t a new one: At the beginning of November, State Treasurer John Chiang said California should explore creating a public bank to handle the $1 billion projected to be generated by the legalization of recreational marijuana,\u00a0adding that the state should be ready to deploy armored cars to collect taxes on the industry, too.<\/p>\n

The next step will be the supes asking for the City Attorney\u2019s Office to weigh in on the legality of banking with the cannabis business community, which will soon be selling recreational marijuana starting Jan. 1.<\/p>\n

To read more about the public bank debate,\u00a0click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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1<\/span><\/td>\nSPARC<\/strong><\/td>\n145<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/span><\/td>\nBerkeley Patients Group<\/strong><\/td>\n80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/span><\/td>\nThe Apothecarium<\/strong><\/td>\n75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Enlarge Two San Francisco city supervisors are pushing the city to open its own public bank, in a bid to give cannabis business owners a place to bank safely.\u00a0 BRENT LEWIN\/BLOOMBERG By\u00a0Riley McDermid\u00a0\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u00a0Digital Producer, San Francisco Business Times Dec 4, 2017 (bizjournals.com) Two San Francisco city supervisors are pushing the… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7224,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions\/7224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}