Very good point. As a general contractor I know I never had to have a business license to operate in the County. It took me years after moving away from Berkeley to get the city to quit harassing me for a business license I didn't get because I did no work in Berkeley.
The politicians at the County have been breathlessly hankering to tax the be-jesus out of pot. At a candidates night I hosted Noreen Evans had to have a hankie handy while salivating about her pot for potholes McIdea. I must say that is probably a better idea than the current tax proposal which just goes into the general fund for whatever may float into the minds of the supervisors. All they care about is gaining the maximum amount of control and revenue while letting the entrepreneur do all the work and take all the risk.
I predict this will not solve any budget issues but will just drive up the cost and hassle of getting and growing weed. Really, the government wants to be everybody's unauthorized business partner while not providing anything of value to the "partnership". Same old BS. I'm voting no, if for no other reason than being against spending $400,000 for a special election rather than wait til the next one.