Marin County is an interesting mix of wealthy tech, trust fund and retired hippie households – maybe not a lot in common on the surface. But in the fall of 2016, they all voted 69.6% in favor of Proposition 64, which legalized recreational marijuana use.

Use may be one thing, but in advance of the law’s Jan 1, 2018 effective date, city councils across Marin and California (56% in favor of legalization) have been using their zoning authority to shut down access in every corner of the state.

Even though medical marijuana has been around for years, the infrastructure isn’t quite transitioning over or expanding. You may be able to USE it in your home, but how do you get it there?

In Sausalito, the council has shut down various access points: no recreational dispensaries or smoking lounges will be allowed. But more than that they're stopping delivery of recreational products across city streets.

Doesn’t sound quite like the revolution that voters ushered in, does it? And what will test Californians and Sausalitans alike is that, unlike the safe anonymity of the voting booth, local processes require people to come out to meetings, give public comment and write letters identifying themselves – quite a different proposition.

So 2018 will be the year where Californians from Sausalito to Eureka to San Diego will be challenged to convince their cities that, yes, they really meant what they voted for. Or city councils will pull every procedural and technical trick they can to roll back voters’ democratic will.

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