“I may be stoned and naked, but I’m happy and safe from vampires.”
As if the case hasn’t been clearly made that pot is not some demon hell drug and will smoked come what may, I fail to see why local politicians here in LA still want to impede the inevitable, and shut down the local marijuana stores with nitpicking local ordinances. Are they just benightedly perverse or being paid off by the big brewers or the drug enforcement industry?
“Medical marijuana advocates upped the ante Tuesday in the legal battle over Los Angeles’ pot dispensaries by suing the city, claiming the ordinance that takes effect later this month is so restrictive it will cause even law-abiding businesses to shut down. Americans for Safe Access, the nation’s main medical marijuana advocacy nonprofit, filed the lawsuit with the Venice Beach Care Center and the PureLife Alternative Wellness Center, two dispensaries that have operated in Los Angeles since 2006 -- before the city's moratorium on the centers took effect. The 11-page suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court says the sweeping marijuana ordinance passed by the City Council in January and signed into law by the mayor Feb. 3 “severely restricts access to medical marijuana by effectively forcing plaintiffs, as well as the vast majority of collectives in the City, to close their doors.” The suit alleges the city ordinance violates state law, and it seeks a court injunction and restraining order to stop the measure from being enforced. In the suit, dispensary operators object to the “onerous restrictions” of the law that is scheduled to take effect March 14, such as a rule that gives them only seven days to relocate to 1,000 feet away from schools, parks and places of worship but does not provide maps to show where they are allowed under the law. "We want to work with the city to comply with its regulations, but such unreasonable requirements make compliance impossible," Yamileth Bolanos, operator of the PureLife Alternative Wellness Center, said in a statement.” (Click here for more.)
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Paid off... so many different industries have a competitive or vested interest in keeping marijuana illegal & otherwise oppressed. From the pushers of distilled spirits to the people contracted to supply disposable plastic eating utensils to our prisons (& schools).
ReplyDeleteOf course, there is the chance that one asshole involved in making the call is just an evil son of a bitch out to ruin everyone's good time.
Pot makes people, to varying degrees, resistant to the bullshit that government must sell to survive and accordingly is seen - and is - a threat to their power. Until some form of genetically-altered Weed is created that makes Smokers believe unquestioningly in what their leaders tell them expect no end to the Drug Wars.
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