California’s Assembly Business and Professions Committee has given approval to legislation that would allow licensed marijuana stores serve customers through drive-thru windows.

Assembly Bill 2697, introduced by Assemblymember Gail Pellerin (D), was approved by the committee in a 17 to 2 vote. The proposal would allow licensed cannabis retailers and storefront microbusinesses to sell marijuana products to customers in motor vehicles through drive-through windows located on the business premises.

Although the bill would not automatically authorize drive-thru sales statewide, it would allow businesses to do so if they receive approval from their local jurisdictions.

“This bill would authorize a local jurisdiction to allow a licensed cannabis retailer or microbusiness that conducts storefront retail sales from a premises to sell cannabis or cannabis products to a customer in a motor vehicle in a drive-through, if the sales are made through a fixed-pane security window with a security drawer that is part of a building located within the premises, except as specified”, states the bill’s official legislative digest. “The bill would exclude a licensee that conducts retail sales exclusively through delivery or that does not maintain a premises open to the public for retail sales.”

The proposal has been sent to the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Approval through appropriations will allow the bill to be considered by

For the full text of AB 2697, click here.