California cities, counties no longer mellow about pot dispensaries

As hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries have opened this year in a startling rollout across California, unnerved local officials have started to push back aggressively.
Many cities and a few counties have banned them. Others have imposed emergency moratoriums. And some have started to sue dispensaries to force them to close. So far, the state's courts have sided with local officials.
For marijuana advocates, who have seen over-the-counter sales become commonplace and watched the steady drift of California's vibrant weed counterculture into the mainstream, these setbacks are a discordant development.

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Larry. : 2009-11-17 18:33:59

I lived in Lompoc, CA a couple of years ago and the city council voted to keep dispensaries out of the city limits. The vote was 6-0 against. I spoke in favor of the dispensaries but I wasn't a very good talker. This city used to be the flower seed capital of the world. They are looking for ways to make the city grow but they can't see the forest for the trees. Just a bunch of wingnuts trying to believe in what they have been told by our government. Unable to change even though they have some of the best horticulturists in the world living there.

guest : 2009-11-13 10:59:59

al capone would be displeased...not enough blood has been spilled yet to force this issue to the front of political discussion

Adam. : 2009-11-12 20:33:56

Well maybe I was trying to make cannabis and coffee compete but not on a moral battleground

Adam. : 2009-11-12 20:30:56

Dude you got me all wrong. I drink a lot of coffee and I'm not trying to make cannabis compete with it. It's great for productivity but compared to cannabis, yes, it causes a LOT of psychosis.

Did I really sound like I hated coffee drinkers? I just had one. I love Tim Horton's, thing is I get incredible headaches without it now. And if you're already psychotic, weed is very likely going to be more gentle than caffeine. Caffeine has a lot in common with coca. And I'm not trying to demonize either one, I don't think coffee or the use of any drug is evil.

I was talking about the corrective forces of the free market. [b]Please don't tell me who I do and do not hate until I make it explicitly clear.[/b] That hate came from within you, I had not even anticipated your feelings toward my words.

Anonymous. : 2009-11-12 12:36:59

"There is no cap on starbucks; they literally open right across from each other, and caffeine really can cause a lot of psychosis."

As long as we engage in "my drug of choice is better than your drug of choice" rhetoric, we're still in the dark ages, especially when we pepper that rhetoric with hyperbole (really? Coffee causes lot's of psychosis? Are there roving bands of jazz-inspired, Negro espresso fiends destroying our cities now?). We become what we hate.

"I want it to be like starbucks."

Overpriced, burnt, and mixed with a lot of spurious flavors to cover for the lack of freshness?

Starbucks: the triumph of form over content!

adam. : 2009-11-12 03:16:47

@ Duffalo:

you're making no sense at all. Placing a cap on the dispensaries keeps everyone but kingpins out, just like placing a cap on the variety of legal drugs has.

If you want to have people admitting that it's about recreation for them, you are advocating a step backwards from that. How long did you spend before writing the second half of your comment? It totally contravenes the start of your post.

There is no cap on starbucks; they literally open right across from each other, and caffeine really can cause a lot of psychosis. And the people owning starbucks are in it for the money. You aren't going to find very much is done right for anything but money. I want it to be like starbucks.

guest : 2009-11-12 03:13:38

"["Some but not all" cities, counties no longer mellow...]"

yes primordialstu you are right, my impression of the article is at first not the same as when running through it with a fine-toothed-comb, analyzing the validity of the statements. But that's what you'd have to do to come out with any other impression. Really good propaganda distorts incongruent facts without creating fallacies.

primordialstu : 2009-11-11 21:10:29

"Some but not all" cities, counties no longer mellow...

Duffalo. : 2009-11-11 15:33:48

I'm in favor of placing a cap on the number of dispensaries. Weed is great and everything, but I'm not excited by the idea of every other storefront being some pseudo-kingpin who wants to get rich quick. What I want from full legalization is a rich culture of coffee shops. I want to go to a weed bar with snacks and comfy couches and video games on giant screens and live music and theme parties and on and on. The medicinal climate just makes things awkward for everyone. Let's stop pretending these are doctor's offices. We can't start having a good time until we admit to ourselves and the public that all we want is to have a good time.

guest : 2009-11-11 15:09:47

normally rags like this put these definitive and false statements right in the headline. I can't say whether or not california cities are by and large mellow about it or not, but the author is only writing about the change he wants to see.

Lift : 2009-11-11 14:17:16

Dammit! We had a perfectly fine California where nobody even heard of Marijuana before these dang dispensaries opened up!

Toomy. : 2009-11-11 13:23:52

The rush to make money is going to cause a backlash as we have seen the beginnings of... cities must limit the number of legal dispensaries, it insures that some will survive the backlash.

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