A San Francisco mayoral candidate wants the city to stop taking new applications for legal pot shops.
, wants to ban new applications for pot shops in the city, limiting the number of stores to current shops and any retail applications that have already been filed. Safai told SFGATE that there's already enough pot stores in San Francisco.
The city currently has 70 licensed cannabis retailers, according to state data, with additional licenses still pending approval. The San Francisco Office of Cannabis was unable to immediately confirm how many additional applications are pending.
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