Fate of LA pot shops left to voters
Source: AP
BY GREG RISLING
LOS ANGELES (AP) Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighborhood concerns that pot shops attract crime.
Voters will head to the polls Tuesday to decide how Los Angeles should handle its high with three competing measures that seek to either limit the number of dispensaries or allow new ones to open and join an estimated several hundred others that currently operate.
Election Day in the nations second-largest city comes just two weeks after a pivotal state Supreme Court decision gave cities and counties the authority to ban pot shops. More than 200 local municipalities have bans, and some cities that were awaiting guidance from the states highest court have taken immediate action this month and begun shuttering clinics.
While some cities have been able to manage pot collectives, Los Angeles fumbled with the issue and dispensaries cropped up across the city as a result. Councilman Ed Reyes said Los Angeles has run into trouble where other cities such as Oakland havent because of the sheer size of LA and a movement that is more organized and litigious.
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2013/05/19/fate_of_la_pot_shops_left_to_voters/
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)and we will be forced to buy from high school students or gangs.
How much money is in the budget to stop a weed?
How to turn a gain into a loss in one vote!
BULLSHIT!
socialsecurityisAAA
(191 posts)The only think that can constitutionally be legislated is that their behavior remain civil. How the war on drugs, food and natural medicine stood up to court reviews is beyond me. Corrupt judges. Corrupt judges and a for profit justice system. REVOLTING!
Upward
(115 posts)When will people wake up and understand that drug dealers really aren't your friends?
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)betweem marijuana and opium.
You do realize that, right?
socialsecurityisAAA
(191 posts)I'm talking about the constitutionality of unconstitutional laws that control what people consume and your talking about "drug dealers" which are a creation of the drug war.
Marijuana, poppy, coca, peyote etc..................................the drug dealer is the EARTH.
byronius
(7,392 posts)Trillo
(9,154 posts)To pay to conduct the audits and background checks?
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)That's how.
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)While it approved medical marijuana, it didn't set up any kind of system for regulating it. All they would have had to do was replicate the existing alcohol and tobacco laws, and most of the problems wouldn't have happened.