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M7.4 Local environmental services

M7.4 Local environmental services 
The San Francisco Department of Public Health had a large range of environmental health services including body art, hazardous waste, hazardous materials, childhood lead prevention, noise, rodents mosquitos and other insects, massage, healthy housing, agriculture, water programs, air and smoking, weights and measures, cannabis, program on health, equity and sustainability, transportation and health, and garbage. I am most surprised at the smaller niche services the  SFDPH provides including body art, massage, and cannabis programs. I found the cannabis program to be the most compelling, simply because it just recently became legal in some states. This program was created to to oversee certain aspects of cannabis such as manufacturing, cultivation, pesticide usage, storage and disposal of hazardous materials, and noise pollution. The website mentions that after 2018, the cannabis program will be overseen by the Office of Cannabis. I am shocked and surprised that there will be a whole department dedicated to cannabis. Times are changing!

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