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L.A. To Repeal Ban on Medical Marijuana Shops
Posted by CN Staff on October 03, 2012 at 06:35:27 PT
By Alex Dobuzinskis
Source: Reuters
California -- The Los Angeles City Council voted to rescind a newly enacted ban on storefront medical marijuana shops on Tuesday, allowing the city to avoid a referendum next year that some officials said would likely succeed in reversing the prohibition. The council, in a blow to an industry that operates in violation of federal law, voted in July to ban pot dispensaries and replace them with a system that would allow up to three patients to collectively grow marijuana.
But medical marijuana advocates collected in August the necessary 27,425 valid signatures to put the decision to a March 2013 referendum. Under city rules, that number of signatures - 10 percent of the total number of votes cast in the city's last mayoral election - put the ban on hold until the vote.The backtracking comes a week after federal authorities moved to close about 70 such dispensaries in the city in a renewed effort to crack down on the operations through the use of asset-forfeiture lawsuits and warning letters."Legally it appears that almost nothing we do is a surefire approach," City Councilman Paul Koretz said during the meeting on Tuesday."But I think the surefire least positive approach is to have a ban, but have it on hold ... have it fail in March and basically be back where we started," said Koretz, who voted in favor of repeal.Pot remains illegal under federal law, but 17 states and the District of Columbia allow it as medicine. Los Angeles has between about 500 and 1,000 medical marijuana dispensaries, more than any other city in the nation.Medical marijuana in California, which in 1996 became the first state to allow it, is used to treat everything from cancer to anxiety, and many police officials complain recreational users are taking advantage of the system.The Los Angeles City Council's decision to repeal the dispensary ban must return for a second vote next week because the 11-2 vote was not a unanimous one.Separately, the council approved a resolution asking the state Legislature to give municipalities clear guidelines on how to regulate the distribution of medical marijuana.Councilman Mitchell Englander complained that many badly run dispensaries in the city have "ruined it" for a minority of storefronts that are truly helping patients.City Councilman Bill Rosendahl, who has cancer and diabetes and has taken medical marijuana, made an impassioned plea during the meeting for allowing a limited number of dispensaries."Where does anybody go, even a councilman go, to get his medical marijuana?," Rosendahl said in a hoarse voice, moments after revealing that doctors told him he might not have "much time to live."Reporting By Alex Dobuzinskis; editing by Todd Eastham and Cynthia JohnstonSource: Reuters (Wire)Author:  Alex Dobuzinskis, ReutersPublished: October 2, 2012Copyright: 2012 Thomson ReutersCannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml 
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Comment #16 posted by runruff on October 07, 2012 at 06:43:07 PT
To my good friend sinse,
or is it my friend Good Sense?Never fear to be yourself, even if it hurts. The greatest conflicts we face are those within ourselves.btw, I am grown up. I am 5'11" and that is as grown up as I will ever be!Thanks Sinse.Cheers!
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Comment #15 posted by afterburner on October 07, 2012 at 01:58:52 PT
This could affect Voting in Boston & beyond
Drugs. 
Drug War Chronicle / By Phillip Smith.
39 COMMENTS.
Scandal Rocks Boston as City Realizes that Thousands of People Were Falsely Convicted for Drugs.
Court administrators in Mass. are scrambling.
October 4, 2012
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/scandal-rocks-boston-city-realizes-thousands-people-were-falsely-convicted-drugs
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Comment #14 posted by Sinsemilla Jones on October 07, 2012 at 01:43:27 PT
Happy Belated Birthday, Jerry!
No matter how old you get, you'll never grow up.Hope none of us do!Actually, I don't think growing up is possible. Those that claim to have grown up, just use it as an excuse to be an asshole.
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Comment #13 posted by Hope on October 06, 2012 at 14:03:24 PT
I wish they'd do a study sometime about which 
country has the most busybodies.The 10 Most Wasted Countrieshttp://www.alternet.org/drugs/10-most-wasted-countries
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Comment #12 posted by runruff on October 06, 2012 at 07:41:29 PT
Cops and daisies and dizzy cops.
They didn'y know until they tried to smoke it!
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Comment #11 posted by runruff on October 06, 2012 at 07:37:33 PT
It was a special day.
All of your greetings are very special to me as well.Thank you.
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Comment #10 posted by afterburner on October 06, 2012 at 07:22:54 PT
Happy Birthday, runruff
Lethbridge Pot Bust: Cops Actually Seized Daisies Not Cannabis. 
The Huffington Post Canada | Posted: 10/05/2012 2:36 pm EDT Updated: 10/05/2012 3:15 pm EDT
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/10/05/lethbridge-pot-bust-daisies_n_1943328.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Ccanada-toshiba%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D216508If the cops can't tell the difference between daisies and cannabis, the war on nature must stop!
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Comment #9 posted by ekim on October 05, 2012 at 18:08:24 PT
way cool runruff
some info on MI mmjhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/planetgreentrees/2012/10/05/planet-green-trees-episode-114-law-and-politics
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Comment #8 posted by FoM on October 05, 2012 at 12:25:28 PT
Hope
I wish we would get some worthwhile news. The news is so slow and it is usually busy this close to elections.
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Comment #7 posted by Hope on October 05, 2012 at 11:30:39 PT
It's been so long...
The injustice of the war on drugs and plants...hah...has gone on so long now. So very long.If there's a high gear on this anti-drug war, anti-cannabis prohibition machine, let's hit it.
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Comment #6 posted by FoM on October 05, 2012 at 11:25:59 PT
runruff
Happy Birthday and I wish you many more!
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Comment #5 posted by Hope on October 05, 2012 at 11:12:35 PT
Happy Birthday, Runruff.
Every day should be happy as it can be.
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Comment #4 posted by runruff on October 05, 2012 at 08:14:53 PT
FYI
I do not feel a day over 65!
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Comment #3 posted by runruff on October 05, 2012 at 08:12:36 PT
Thank you young fella!
My Dear Wife says I do look a day over sixty-something.
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Comment #2 posted by museman on October 05, 2012 at 07:55:19 PT
runruff
Old man.... ;) Happy Birthday.That is some numerological head banger!
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Comment #1 posted by runruff on October 05, 2012 at 07:49:59 PT
So, another birthday, just another day.
My birthday is on 10-5-46.My birthday is a 10 on each end divided by it's common denominator "5" resembling a scale, Libra.My name is Jerry Dale Sisson. The first name is 5 letters, the second name is 4 letters and the third name is 6 letters.Add my middle name with my last name [4-6] preceeded by my first name [5] and my bithday is in my name. 5-46 and 46 makes 10 my birth month.Pretty cool, huh?
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