Attention Patients of Los Angeles!

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Saw this on weedtracker thought ide give a heads up here:

The City of Los Angeles is proposing to close all medical marijuana dispensaries save 100, which will be chosen by lottery. The vote may be as early this Friday, January 21, 2011. Please come down to the City Council Meeting and let them know they cannot destroy safe access in Los Angeles!

1. Please call the Los Angeles City Council and ask them to find another way.

2. Attend the Council Meeting


WHAT: Los Angeles City Council Meeting
WHERE: 200 N. Main Street, Los Angeles, CA
WHEN: Friday January 21, 2011
TIME: 10 a.m.

 

[WasntMe]

what is the reasoning behind the proposed closings?

 

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idiots basically i believe law inforcement are saying its just creating more crime, spreading propaganda & fear & people are dumb enough to believe it.i dont remember the reasons but its all stupid the city council/law is trying to completely snub them out.

 

[RomulusUSA]

Do tell, how does legal growing and distribution create more crime? From everything I have gleaned from school (instructors talking about studies of crime vs drug enforcement), the news, and logical deduction say that statement is 100% incorrect. LEGAL growing/distribution means police protection. Meaning that if a legal grower had an issue with, for example, a gang stealing their product, the police could help recover the loss, just like any other major property crime. Or more so, like a crime against a pharmacy.

OP, please keep us posted on this matter. It won't effect me, but it morally bothers me that politicians keep pushing fabrications on what we may as well just call The Herd.

 

[mrktwiz]

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously today to amend its medical marijuana ordinance, about a month after a judge deemed certain provisions unconstitutional.
FROM: Daily New Los Angeles 1-21-11

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The changes include legitimizing dispensaries that opened on or before Sept. 14, 2007, and banning the rest; establishing a lottery to determine which dispensaries can remain at their current location and which must move; and easing restrictions on patient information that must be turned over to police.


The original ordinance specified only dispensaries that opened on or before a Sept. 14, 2007, moratorium on new stores, and registered on or before a Nov. 13, 2007, deadline, would be allowed to continue operating.


Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Anthony Mohr struck down that provision, however, saying the moratorium was improperly extended and therefore created confusion among dispensary owners.


He suggested the ordinance instead be amended to allow all dispensaries that existed before a certain date, and ban the rest.
The "temporary urgency ordinance" approved today does just that, setting the date at Sept. 14, 2007.


A requirement from the original ordinance that dispensaries be at least 1,000 feet from schools, public parks, libraries and religious institutions, as well as each other, was left intact, as was the prohibition on dispensaries being "on a lot abutting, across the street or alley from, or having a common corner with" residential property.


To break up clusters of dispensaries, the council agreed to select only 100 of them to undergo inspections, and then hold a lottery to determine their order on a "priority list." Those at the top of the list will get the first pick of locations. Councilman Ed Reyes conceded "the lottery makes it harder to make decisions based on merit, because it's lottery, it's by chance, but it's what we can do the quickest, given our budget circumstances."

"Our dilemma is that any kind of complicated process that starts evaluating each entity will take a lot of personnel, and a lot of time, both of which we don't have," he said.

The judge also blocked a provision requiring dispensaries to give police access to the names, addresses and phone numbers of patients -- even without a search warrant.The amended ordinance will allow patients to provide only a county- issued medical marijuana card, which does not contain personal information. Violations of the original ordinance were punishable as misdemeanors. But since Mohr argued that state law preempts criminal enforcement, the council agreed today to rely instead on instead on "civil remedies" such as fines.

 

[RomulusUSA]

Wow.