Scotts Valley Moves to Ban Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

To: chris.drj [at] gmail.com
Subject: Scotts Valley to vote on ordinance to ban Medicinal Cannabis dispensaries AND DELIVERY
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:12:41 -0700

Greetings Santa Cruz ASA [Americans for Safe Access] members,

My name is Chris Coulter and I am the Government Relations Chair for Silicon Valley ASA. I wanted to let everyone know that on Wednesday, March 16th @ 6:30pm, the Scotts Valley City Council will vote on its ordinance to ban Medical Marijuana Dispensaries (MMD’s).

Here is a link to the city website where you can review the city’s documents - http://www.scottsvalley.org/council/agendas_minutes.html

I met a few of you at the January SC ASA and no doubt have seen some of you at either a Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors or Planning Commissioners meeting when they have discussed their MMD ordinance. I am trying to become more involved in Santa Cruz County and originally planned on giving everyone a heads-up that this was coming up fast at the last SC ASA meeting. Unfortunately, I don’t think the February meeting was very well publicized as I was one of just 2 people who showed up @ Medicann. I look forward to seeing any and all of you at the next chapter meeting later this month.

Beyond the fact that the council members are banning dispensaries within city limits, the ordinance as written goes even further by banning the delivery of medicinal cannabis in the city. This is contrary to the previous statements made by all members of the council and Police Chief Weiss that one reason a dispensary ban was OK was because Scotts Valley citizens could still have their medicine delivered to them. I hope we can get people to show up and express our outrage to this ordinance and at the very least continue to allow delivery of medicine.

If anyone has any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,
Chris Coulter
The Healing Clinic Cooperative
Cell: 408-813-9986