(KTLA News) The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will consider a proposal to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated areas of the county, which would cover territory with a population of 1.5 million people.
The motion is the first step toward reversing the county’s 4-year-old policy on the dispensaries, which are allowed with strict prohibitions on their location: They cannot be within 1,000 feet of churches, day-care centers, libraries, playgrounds, schools and other sensitive uses.
Some supervisors have expressed concern that the dispensaries could attract crime. Another factor weighing on them is the city of Los Angeles’ recent aggressive push to shut down dispensaries that are illegal under a city ordinance that took effect four weeks ago, raising concern that dispensary owners would be searching for a new home.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors is also considering a similar ban at its meeting today.
How’s that “No on Prop 19″ working out for you, “Stoners Against Legalization”? You helped strike down an initiative that would have recognized a right to sell marijuana and would have prevented state and local agencies from interfering with lawfully cultivated cannabis. Sure, LA and OC weren’t likely to open up any Prop 19 recreational-use stores, but the language of 19 would have given existing medical-use stores some better ammunition in court to defend themselves.
Looks like you may have to drive to Oakland to get your marijuana anyway…
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For too many years now CA has had “legal pot” medical but to many legal, this is a generation now raised around a legal source of marijuana and they really dont get whats happening around this country. We have kids that now are in their 20s that have no idea that someone in Florida can go to Jail for a seed or in Ohio for 1 plant, all they know is that they have a legal way to get marijuana and when the time came to vote they had no reason to even care about it.
It was the 18-26 crowd we didnt get the vote out and we didnt win because of it. We have a generation that doesnt understand and hasnt lived the prohibition that many live still to this day, they dont get it. Many dont understand the history of prohibition and dont know that we are even fighting or have been for 40years, in Norml anyhow, they dont know any of this.
All I can hope for is that this generation is taught our history and the war we are in and how they are the tip of the spear. Ca next time needs to be charged with energy about legalizing instead of the fighting we had about how to do it. Fight all we want about how to do it but once we have a bill up for a vote we need to stop and get the facts out and get that legal generation out to the polls.
if they close all these pot shops down it may just wake up that generation and show them that dont have legal pot and need to fight for it next time!
Anyone who’s pointing a finger and saying, “Look what you did, you HAPPY now?”, is ignoring the whole point of Stoners Against Legalization.
The less legal cannabis there is, the more business it means for those black market businesses. If all of California would suddenly outlaw all cannabis in the state tomorrow, that would inspire celebrations amongst those who would see an instant boost to their bottom line.
We blew it. We didn’t get the laws changed when we needed to. The black market marijuana industry, to borrow a tired phrase, is “too big to fail” now. It’s too wealthy and powerful to defeat using the same methods folks like NORML, MPP, ASA, LEAP, and others have used for years.
Medical cannabis supporters, who have long criticized Big Pharma, are now supporting Little Pharma. It may be little in comparison with the big guys, but it’s still a huge, profitable industry.
I don’t know what the answer is, but it’s time for those who have dedicated careers to reforming marijuana laws to realize they just got handed a defeat because people got tired of waiting. They got tired and put their efforts into dealing with the laws the way they are. They built enormously profitable businesses based upon prohibition, and they aren’t going to give them up. They don’t care who goes to jail, as long as it’s not them, and they’ve become experts at protecting themselves and their businesses.
We thought we were battling the Bill O’reillys, Michele Leonharts, and Gil Kerlikowskis of the world, and if that were the case, the laws would be different now, Prop 19 would’ve passed. We were wrong.
We were actually battling those who are making piles of untaxed, unregulated cash, cultivating and selling marijuana on the black market.
And they ain’t your daddy’s dealer, anymore. They are wealthy and powerful, and they just enjoyed their first victory in the war to keep their profits safe.
I’d like to think folks in NORML and other organizations are smart and experienced enough in all things marijuana to see it’s time to step back and take another look at who their opponents are.
Tossed Salad is going to reap what they have sown. You wanted utter perfection in the prop, you voted it down, and this is what you get! You FAILED to an epic proportion.