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New Round of Grass Prohibition Likely at City Council Tuesday 1-12
The Planning Commission passed 5-2 a new medical marijuana dispensary ban recommendation in mid-November, essentially rubberstamping the staff's proposal. It mirrors the Reefer Madness hysteria of other cities, eager to demonize and limit marijuana sales. It also grants an effective monopoly to the two current marijuana clubs, who, to their discredit, supported this ban.
Last week a local attorney, interested in supporting a small medical marijuana dispensing service, advised me that the Planning Department and City Council planned to put the new medical marijuana dispensary ban on the first agenda of the New Year (1-12). The agenda comes out on Thursday (1-7) so check then on the city's website to see if this will actually be the case.
More background can be found at
"Thursday (11-19) Planning Commission May Seal Fate of New Medical Grass Clubs"
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/17/18628995.php
"New Medical Marijuana Dispensary Prohibition Being Rushed Through Tuesday at City Council " http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/20/18603119.php?show_comments=1#18604725
Councilmembers Rotkin and Lane, while supporting an earlier "emergency moratorium" (without any findings of why new marijuana clubs constituted an emergency), reported in the Santa Cruz Weekly that they would favor perhaps "allowing" one or two more clubs to open.
[See "Bud Boundaries" at http://www.metrosantacruz.com/metro-santa-cruz/11.25.09/news2-0947.html ]
Other cities are mirroring Santa Cruz's neo-Prohibitionist tactics [See "Oakdale moves ahead with medipot dispensary ordinance " at http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/04/18634325.php ]
I've extensively covered the issue on Free Radio (go to http://www.huffsantacruz.org, search for "Descriptions of Bathrobespierre's Broadsides", then search for "medical marijuana dispensary ban" for audio of some of the Council and Planning Commission hearings).
For detailed and informative local coverage, see J. Craig Canada's articles at http://www.examiner.com/x-14883-Santa-Cruz-County-Drug-Policy-Examiner
City Council phone in number is 831-420-5030. You can e-mail them at citycouncil [at] ci.santa-cruz.ca.us .
More background can be found at
"Thursday (11-19) Planning Commission May Seal Fate of New Medical Grass Clubs"
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/17/18628995.php
"New Medical Marijuana Dispensary Prohibition Being Rushed Through Tuesday at City Council " http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/20/18603119.php?show_comments=1#18604725
Councilmembers Rotkin and Lane, while supporting an earlier "emergency moratorium" (without any findings of why new marijuana clubs constituted an emergency), reported in the Santa Cruz Weekly that they would favor perhaps "allowing" one or two more clubs to open.
[See "Bud Boundaries" at http://www.metrosantacruz.com/metro-santa-cruz/11.25.09/news2-0947.html ]
Other cities are mirroring Santa Cruz's neo-Prohibitionist tactics [See "Oakdale moves ahead with medipot dispensary ordinance " at http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/04/18634325.php ]
I've extensively covered the issue on Free Radio (go to http://www.huffsantacruz.org, search for "Descriptions of Bathrobespierre's Broadsides", then search for "medical marijuana dispensary ban" for audio of some of the Council and Planning Commission hearings).
For detailed and informative local coverage, see J. Craig Canada's articles at http://www.examiner.com/x-14883-Santa-Cruz-County-Drug-Policy-Examiner
City Council phone in number is 831-420-5030. You can e-mail them at citycouncil [at] ci.santa-cruz.ca.us .
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