marijuana dispensaries

[D3]

I just read online that they have just passed the ban of all marijuana dispensaries in los angeles.:confused2: :cry:

 

[ozzydiodude]

The Los Angeles City Council's unanimous vote Tuesday to ban all pot dispensaries was met with a mixture of anger and support.

Medical marijuana activists erupted in jeers after the decision, and police officers were called into the council chambers to quell them. Some activists threatened to sue. Others vowed to draft a ballot initiative to overturn the ban.

"We're not going to make this easy for the city of Los Angeles," said Don Duncan, California director of Americans for Safe Access.

But the ban is supported by some neighborhood activists as well as Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, who criticized most pot shops in the city as "for-profit businesses engaged in the sale of recreational marijuana to healthy young adults."

Under the ban, all of the 762 dispensaries registered in the city will be sent letters ordering them to shut down immediately. Those that don't comply may face legal action from the city.

The new ordinance allows patients and their caregivers to grow and share marijuana in groups of three people or fewer. But activists complain that few patients have the time or skills for that, with one dispensary owner saying it costs at least $5,000 to grow the plant at home.

Councilman Jose Huizar said the ban, which received a last-minute show of support from Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Beck on Tuesday, will help bring peace to neighborhoods that he says have been tormented by problem dispensaries.

"Relief is on its way," he said, noting that the ban would allow the city to close shops without having to prove that they are violating nuisance or land-use laws, as is the case now.

But the issue was clouded when the council also voted to instruct city staff to draw up a separate ordinance that would allow dozens of pot shops to remain open. Officials said that proposal, which would grant immunity to shops that existed before a 2007 moratorium on new dispensaries, could be back to the council for consideration in three months.
Huizar voted against that motion, which he said might give the public "false hope" that the ban would not be enforced.

But Councilman Dennis Zine, who voted for both the ban and the plan to allow some dispensaries to stay open, suggested that police might not enforce the ban against the city's original pot shops while the new ordinance is being drawn up.

"The officers will be given that information and we will concentrate on the other locations initially," Zine said.

However, Councilman Paul Koretz, who proposed the ordinance to allow some shops to stay open, called Tuesday's prohibition "a ban until otherwise noted."

How cities should regulate distribution of pot has been a gray area since California voters passed a 1996 initiative legalizing medical marijuana even though any sale of marijuana remains illegal under federal law. Officials are looking to an upcoming ruling by the state Supreme Court for clarity on whether cities can regulate and ban dispensaries, but that may not come for another year.

Council members said that in the meantime, something had to be done to reduce the number of dispensaries, which outnumber Starbucks coffee shops in Los Angeles 2 to 1, according to Councilman Paul Krekorian.

Beck, who appeared before the council, said dispensaries can be hot spots for crime, citing burglaries, armed robberies and killings.

But those who support dispensaries say the ban will simply drive distribution of marijuana underground.

That's what Steven Lubell, an attorney who represents several of the city's original dispensaries, predicted. "Is it going to go away? No," he said. "It's going to go to a darker side."

HERE's The article

 

[orangesunshine]

sad day in the city of lost angels

 

[D3]

It makes you feel sorry for the people who don't produce theIr own who need It. I just hope this doesn't filter down to the other states that have legalized for medical use.

 

[pcduck]

Sure is when a police chief becomes a doctor with no credentials

engaged in the sale of recreational marijuana to healthy young adults."

And I wonder how he knows this?

Did he snoop into the doctors files?

Did he conduct interviews of these healthy young adults?

I guess he did not see that commercial on TV yet. ( You wouldn't want a doctor doing your job, so why are you doing his)

 

[tastyness]

Crazy. 762 thriving business closed in a hurting economy when no one is being hurt except the pocketbooks of drug companies and private prisons. Yech!
Misinformation is so dangerous.

 

[Roddy]

I'm sure the chief is calling it as he sees it, duck, it isn't a secret that there's little needed for a rec. (don't get me wrong, don't try to make it I'm against MJ or anything, and this isn't a Cali issue, it's here as well. This is mho and not meant to spark a flamefest, if you disagree, please do so in a friendly manner).

 

[D3]

I agree as well that they have way too many dispensaries in california. In the state I lIve In there Is not a dIspensary here In my cIty and It's 1 of the largest cItIes In the state. They are noT allowing for any more applicaTions in This sTaTe. I wanted to open 1 here but they said no. I already had my growers lined up and I was looking at buildings as well. ThaT's why I was saying I hope iT doesn'T filTer down To The oTher medical sTaTes. Because our state doesn't have enough dispensaries.

 

[terky]

Vote these tools out of office.

The number of dispensaries should be set by the free market.

 

[NorCalHal]

The Street is once again.....KING. Good Job Politicians!

Personally, I love the black market.

 

[Roddy]

The Street is once again.....KING. Good Job Politicians!

Personally, I love the black market.

They do seem to keep going backwards, don't they? One of these days, someone will figure it out....I think!

 

[New2theGame]

streets time lol lets boost the crime rate!

 

[7greeneyes]

THATS it, I'm going back to crack cocaine (jk, nvr smoked the **** in my life) , apparently the FEDS don't see (most probabaly cracker/heroin)dealers on every frickin corner like I do....it's sad because they know all these ppl are gainfully employed at the dispensarys and have property and revenue that can be stolen (oh wait, they call it asset forfeiture...I forgot ) versus Joe Q. Crackdealer who has ZERO assets....hmmm...makes ya think...