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HEADING DOWN THE HOME STRETCH: LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL TO VOTE ON A MEDICAL MARIJUANA ORDINANCE IN JANUARY By Resipsa December 17, 2009 Los Angeles, CA In one of the most contentious discussions about medical cannabis the Los Angeles City Council has had to date, the ultimate decision was to wait until the January 13, 2010, to vote on the city’s Medical Marijuana Ordinance. Debate grew so heated that one councilman walked off the floor. The audience outcry was so impassioned that Councilman Zine, temporarily occupying the president’s chair, warned that he would eject disruptive individuals if the outbursts continued. Councilman Bill Rosendahl told the chamber: “…I think we’re treating it like a pariah…I held my lover in my arms as he died… if it wasn’t for medical marijuana he never would have been able to eat decently, never would have been able to go forward…This sensitive use business, putting it in the back alley in industrial areas is wrong.” The audience defied Zine’s admonishment at that point, leaping to its feet with shouts of “thank you!” followed by thunderous applause. The “sensitive use business” Rosendahl referred to was the brainchild of entrenched City Attorney staff, who for months had been stalling the ordinance by insisting over-the-counter sales were illegal and thus Los Angeles could only regulate collective grows, not license medical marijuana dispensaries. Americans for Safe Access flew their counsel, Joe Elford, in to address the council on a more correct interpretation. The Union of Medical Marijuana Patients prepared a long legal brief on how the city attorney‘s office had misread the law. Council members ultimately rejected the City Attorney’s position and amended the ordinance to allow reimbursements consistent with state law. Perhaps anticipating their legal strategy wouldn’t work, this same City Attorney staff had previously placed a Trojan horse in the ordinance: broadly expanded sensitive use areas. Instead of just schools, this section included parks, public libraries, religious institutions, licensed child care facilities, youth centers and rehab facilities. Council members Alarcon, Parks and Perry wanted a l,000 feet (about a city block) between sensitive uses and medical marijuana dispensaries. Parks and Perry wanted all residential use, including vacant lots, to be deemed sensitive uses as well. Alert activists who had lived in Los Angeles all their lives, knew this would shrink available land to the point where there would be no place to situate a dispensary. They lobbied hard and won a temporary reprieve, persuading the Council to look at Maps prepared by the City’s Planning and Land Use Management Department before voting. The maps, shown during the meeting, were dramatic in themselves: each time the map overlay showed sensitive use areas which included residential, available land shrunk to almost nothing. The City Council’s ultimate decision was to wait until January 13th to give the body time to consider sensitive use issues, as well as a motion made by Councilwoman Jan Perry which would allow individual council members to dictate what constituted sensitive use in their districts.
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West Coast Cannabis
Friday, 30 July 2010
x Cannabis Raid Relief Concert and ExpoBalboa Club Park Ball RoomAug. 14th 2010 - From 4:30 to 9:30pm http://rxcannabisraidrelief.blogspot.com/...Mark your calendars and get ready to have a great time, get involved and make a real difference... Read more...
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
By Russ Belville Yesterday on our daily webcast for NORML we interviewed Dale Sky Clare, a spokesperson forProposition 19, the initiative that will ask Californians to vote on a very limited form of marijuana legalization. We discussed the latest... Read more...
Saturday, 10 July 2010
A two-year investigation led to the arrests of 14 people on the Big Island in connection with an alleged marijuana growing and distribution network. The leader of the group has openly said cannabis is a religion for him and that he's proud to spread... Read more...
Saturday, 10 July 2010
San Diego, CA -- Federal agents raided at least three San Diego-area medical marijuana dispensaries today in the early morning hours. Sources say that Green Kross, Unified Collective and Kush Lounge were all served federal search warrants and were... Read more...
Saturday, 10 July 2010
Medical cannabis supporters are needed, and encouraged to attend the Oakland City Council Public Safety Committee meeting inOakland City Hall on Tuesday, July 13, at 6:00 p.m. We do not want to antagonize the councilmembers with a lot of... Read more...
Tuesday, 06 July 2010
Imperial Beach refuses to implement recommendations of the Grand Jury By: Eugene Davidovich, Marcus Boyd (San Diego Americans for Safe Access) Come out Tomorrow, July 7th at 6pm to 825 Imperial Beach Blvd to the Imperial Beach City Council Meeting... Read more...
Friday, 25 June 2010
Butte County D.A Mike Ramsey. Known Drug Warrior and hater of medical cannabis patients... From The Chicoer: FATHER, SON ACQUITTED IN POT-GROW CASEOROVILLE -- A jury on Tuesday acquitted two Concow men of criminal charges in a medical marijuana grow... Read more...
Friday, 25 June 2010
From North County Times: SUPERVISORS ADOPT RESTRICTIVE MEDICAL MARIJUANA ORDINANCEAdvocates Say Restrictions Are Far Too StringentCounty supervisors on Wednesday adopted medical marijuana dispensary regulations that critics say severely limit... Read more...
Friday, 25 June 2010
From San Jose Mercury News: Facing a vocal barrage from a well-educated cross-section of San Jose's 55,000 cannabis patients, the city's leaders kicked the can down the road Tuesday evening - voting to postpone regulating dispensaries until... Read more...
Friday, 25 June 2010
HOLLYWOOD -- A clerk in a Hollywood marijuana dispensary was shot dead Thursday evening, just hours after another marijuana dispensary employee was killed in a separate apparent attempted robbery in Echo Park, police said.At around 9:15 p.m.... Read more...
Wednesday, 05 May 2010
L.A. orders 439 medical marijuana dispensaries to close The shops must close before a long-debated city ordinance takes effect June 7, or face criminal and civil penalties. About 130 dispensaries that registered with the city could be allowed to... Read more...
Sunday, 02 May 2010
Los Angeles, CA -- Federal District Court Judge George H. Wu issued a 41-page written sentencing order yesterday, stating that medical marijuana provider Charles C. Lynch was "caught in the middle of the shifting positions" on the issue and that,... Read more...
Sunday, 02 May 2010
Long Beach marijuana law starts clock ticking on collectives Operators of collectives say they've met, are meeting, rules.By Paul Eakins, Staff WriterPosted: 05/01/2010 07:55:55 PM PDThttp://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_15000518LONG BEACH -- At... Read more...
Thursday, 15 April 2010
Salem-News.com (Apr-15-2010 13:28) The Hemperor, Jack Herer has Died Bonnie King Salem-News.com The global cannabis community mourns the loss of the great Jack Herer. (SALEM, Ore.) - The sad news has been confirmed. Jack Herer, author of Emperor... Read more...
Wednesday, 07 April 2010
Preparing for the end of the marijuana boom Mary Anderson / Redwood Times Preparing for the end of the marijuana boom Local musician and KMUD talk show host Anna Hamilton took center stage at the Mateel Community Center on Tuesday night for the... Read more...
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