Some elected officials across Orange County are starting to potentially eye legalizing retail marijuana dispensaries to help bring in new revenue to patch up their heavily bleeding budgets.
The interest in cannabis comes as officials in Irvine, Santa Ana, Orange and Fullerton are dealing with multi-million dollar budget gaps, with the latter three eying putting tax measures on the November ballot this year to try and get voters to help them out of the hole.
Officials have long grappled with cracking down on black market cannabis dispensaries even after a few cities legalized some cannabis businesses…