L.A. Medical Pot Ordinance Sparks Controversy
Mon, Nov 16, 2009 4:08 pm
In the continuing saga of the L.A. City Council’s bumbling attempt to 1) actually pass a legitimate medical marijuana ordinance, and, 2) somehow ban the sale of medical marijuana, the council is buckling down today to finish drafts of their latest anti-medical marijuana legislation.
As we’ve covered previously, the City Attorney’s interpretation of the state law – that it actually prohibits sales of medical marijuana – is quite a stretch. Essentially, the argument is that to be designated as “nonprofit” a business cannot accept any cash. Not even to cover the basic costs of operating. Naturally, such a law would lead to the closing of a whole bunch of legitimate nonprofit dispensaries – just as it would lead to the closing of a whole bunch of legitimate nonprofit businesses in any field if the City Council decided to target them.
It’s a long shot that such an ordinance would hold up in court (as it appears the entire case for banning sales is based on a wishful interpretation and is not actually specific in the language of the law). Still, the City Council seems content to go forward with this ordinance and in the process, waste time, waste money, and appear woefully inept.
Two groups, the Union of Medical Marijuana Patients and Americans for Safe Access are prepared to sue over City Attorney Carmen Trutanich’s sophistry. Let’s hope we don’t get to that point and that the ordinance never passes the council.
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uhh
Dec 29 2009, 8:01 pm
Vaporized green goodness should never be shunned!
actually
Dec 24 2009, 5:01 pm
Mythic literature
after though
Dec 23 2009, 4:55 pm
the people
Nov 24 2009, 2:16 pm
I'm not for a minute saying that there isn't scum who use "street drugs", and I think the violent ones and the ones who do steal or and hurt others do need to be locked away.
However statistics don't lie. Most cannabis busts are for having a little weed on the person and non violent. This is a crying shame.
Watch out for people who pepper they're wording with words like "abuse" and "drug addict" and be careful around people who say they have been "clean" for such and such a time, "as they usually smoke a cigarette of tobacco", as they don't know the real meaning of clean then so they can not be trusted either as these words are words uttered by prohibitionists.
just out
Nov 24 2009, 2:09 pm
Prohibitionists use the old we have to not trust the "street people" as a ruse to frighten ordinary citizens into believing that any use of a substance other than the ones pushed by doctors makes the street people somehow become thiefs, or worse. This just isn't so.
I have lived among the "street people" for a while, and have found the nicest people to be street people.
I have
Nov 22 2009, 4:19 pm
Most of those people get by on less than a dollar a day.
the city council
Nov 22 2009, 4:15 pm
I'm not even sure why we need to vote on legalizing our constitutional rights in the first place.
Coast to coast last nite told the truth on how and why so many people are getting arrested yearly folks and its a shame. Snitches. Watch out for these soulless vermin.
The lady who hope to profit from the book she wrote on the snitches made me sick. Her anti-christenic attitude is most evil. I know weed is the all healing herb, and I don't do coke, but I know those who do will continue doing what they want until they and they alone choose to stop. So I leave the coke users alone. In turn, they leave me alone, and we have mutual respect for each other, and that's how it should work. But that lady last night. Saying the arrest of "these people" are necessary. PULEEZE!
She I assume thinks I need to be in a penile institution. What trash she is if that's what she thinks.
She needs to take all her proceeds from that ill book of hers and donate to Norml, or mpp, or maybe go out her door, and give the money to the homeless.
The New Linneas
Nov 21 2009, 10:33 pm
LET'S LEGALIZE IT...... my blog is
http://demon-plant.blogspot.com/
MR.C
Nov 21 2009, 7:48 pm
scotti
Nov 20 2009, 1:25 pm
ANON
Nov 20 2009, 12:58 pm
Eazy E
Nov 20 2009, 8:36 am
hmm
Nov 19 2009, 1:40 pm
la city council
Nov 19 2009, 3:20 am
dr. green thumb.
Nov 18 2009, 11:12 pm
James Crosby
Nov 18 2009, 1:59 pm
Not-for-profit business' have been able to sell stuff since their inception. They just can't be making a profit for personal individuals. They must put their money back into the organization. That is completely legal, and always has been.
people!
Nov 18 2009, 1:45 pm
Let people, all people know how you feel. If your group prohibits such free speech, then quit that group, and join one that will, or be a loner and do it yourselves.
And ignore the crazy people that post here with hate. They are obviously paid fed ass-wipes.
gstlab3
Nov 18 2009, 12:25 pm
COPY AND SPREAD THESE FOLLOWING WORDS AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE.,
gstlab3
Nov 18 2009, 12:23 pm
"WHEN THE PEOPLE ARE FORCED OUT OF DESPARATE NEED AND BASIC SURVIVAL IS BROUGHT TO THE FACES OF THE SPOILED ENTITLEMENT CLASSES AND THE ELITISTS HAVE RUN OUT OF BAIT AND SWITCH GAMES FOR US TO SWALLOW!!"
"WHEN DO THE PEOPLE REALIZE THAT THEY ARE SLAVES IN PERPETUITY?"
WHEN THEY ARE TOLD THAT THEIR MEDICAL CONDITION AND SUCH PRECLUDE THEM FROM TREATMENTS AND MEDICINES AND ADVANCEMENT IN SOCIETY IS THUS ENDED AND YOU WILL BE PUT ON WELLFARE AND REMAIN COMPLIANT UNTIL YOU DIE."
IS THIS WHEN?
IS IT TIME TO ACT?
OR.... DO WE SIT ON OUR HANDS AND WAIT SOME MORE WHILE OUR LIVES AND OUR FORTUNES ARE SQUANDERED IN WASHINGTON D.C. AND PLACES LIKE LOS ANGELES?"
WHEN DID OUR LIVES AND OUR LIFES WORK BECOME THE PROPERTY OF THE GOVERNMENT?
WHEN DID THE PEOPLE LOOSE THEIR RIGHT TO BE COMFORTABLE DURING ILLNESS AND DEATH?!?
WHEN THE FUCK DO WE AS A NATION RISE UP AND TELL THESE SONS OF BITCH THAT WE ARE FREE AND WILL NOT BE LIED TO ANY LONGER?!??!"
OUR LIVES ARE OUR OWN!!!!
THESE PLANTS AND OUR BODIES ARE SOVRIEGHN GIFTS FROM GOD AND CANNOT BE OWNED BY ANY GOVERNMENT!!!!
THIS GOES FOR THE PLANET AS WELL FOR ALL YOU TREE HUGGERS OUT THERE!!!!
WE AS HUMAN BEINGS DO NOT "OWN" ANYTHING.
WE ARE CARE TAKERS OF THIS EARTH AND EACH OTHER AND NOTHING MORE., WE ARE GARDENERS AND BABY SITTERS AND NURSES, MOMS AND DADS, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, AND COUSINS, AUNTS AND UNCLES.,ALL OF US TOGETHER ARE ONE BIG EXTENDED FAMILY SOME OF WICH WE CANNOT STAND TO BE AROUND!!! "HAHAHA!"
ANY WAY WE BETTER ACT LIKE WE ARE AMERICAN VERY SOON OR THERE WILL BE NO FREEDOMS LEFT AND AMERICA WILL BE A FAIRY TALE ONCE AGAIN NEVER TO BE REALIZED AGAIN BY OUR GENERATION WHO CAN STILL REMEMBER THINGS WHEN THEY WERE A LITTLE BETTER THAN THEY ARE NOW.
AND SOME OF US REMEMBER THE STORY AND OF THE IDEAS OF FREEDOM AND THE BIRTH OF THIS., THE WORLDS ONLY TRULY FREE NATION AND THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT IT INTO EXISTANCE AND WHY THEY DID IT.,
I HATE TO THINK WE WILL HAVE TO BE REMINDED WHY THEY DID WHAT THEY DID.,LIFE WAS'NT SO NICE BACK IN THOSE DAYS.,
I HOPE MORE OF US REALIZE WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING OVER AND I HOPE THEY COME AND GET ORGANIZED VERY SOON.,
WE NEED TO RAISE A ARMY OF FREEDOM FIGHTER ALL OVER AGAIN!!!
REAL PATRIOTS!!! REAL PEOPLE WHO KNOW WHAT IT IS TO BE FREE.
IT AI'NT JUST ABOUT MARIJUANA ANYMORE!!!!
GROW YOUR OWN, FREE YOUR MIND, FREE THE PLANET!!!!!!
la-city-council
Nov 18 2009, 11:21 am
pAY tAXES - THEN JUST DIE.
There is no marijuana for sale here. No one uses it. Don't come here.
Stay home and get drunk.
Don't get married.
Stay home and get drunk.
Stay home and get drunk.
THE LA CITY COUNCIL
DON'T VISIT HERE
PAY TAXES - THEN JUST ROLL OVER AND DIE.
IF YOU'RE HERE - GO AWAY AND GET DRUNK.
PAY TAX - THEN DIE.
HU210
Nov 18 2009, 6:56 am
Well said Hef.
Ghostwolf
Nov 18 2009, 4:57 am
HadGirthAtBirth
Nov 18 2009, 2:29 am
bigtitsbiggerdicks
Nov 18 2009, 1:48 am
gstlab3
Nov 17 2009, 8:32 pm
CARMEN TRUTANICH AND THE ELECTED OFFICIALS SIT IDLE AND ARE DEAF TO THE CITIZENRY YOU HAVE TYRANY!!
THE LAST TIME TYRANTS ASSERTED THEMSELVES UPON THE FREEDOM LOVING PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES THERE WAS CIVIL WAR AND THE UNION WAS BROKEN.,UNTIL THE PEOPLE WERE BROKEN AND THE ARMIES WERE DEPLETED., BOTH SIDES HAVE SUFFERED INTO THIS DAY., WE ARE SEEING THE GOVERNMENT OVER STEPPING THE BOUNDS OF THE CONSTITUTION AND THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IS IGNORED.HOW DO WE RESPOND?!?
OPEN REBELLION? A VOTE IN THE NEXT ELECTION SEASON?
OR REAL ACTION IN THE SUPREME COURT PUTTING AN END TO THE LAWYERING AND THE CREATION OF MORE BEUROCRACIES?
HOW DO WE DISMANTLE THIS EMPIRE THAT FEEDS OFF THE CITIZENS AND PROMOTES NOTHING BUT MORE RESTRAINTS UPON THE COMMON PEOPLE?!?!
THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA MUST END THE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION IN COMMERCE AND TRADE/ SMALL BUISNESS etc...,GIVE THE PEOPLE THEIR PROPERTY AND INCOME TAX/SOCIAL SECURITY MONEY BACK AND GIVE THEM THEIR RIGHT TO TRADE OPENLY AND PRIVATELY IN SMALL PERSONAL CO-OPS AND SMALL FARMS!!!!
GROW YOUR OWN, FREE YOUR MIND, FREE THE PLANET!!!!
dumbass
Nov 17 2009, 5:35 pm
cannabis does not what else do they need to know?
the
Nov 17 2009, 5:10 pm
How about closing down pharmaceutical outlets in l.a. that dispense deadly pills? How many pill outlets are there in l.a.? Huh? How many die in l.a. from pills annually?
Red
Nov 17 2009, 12:13 pm
commen sense
Nov 17 2009, 4:48 am
the
Nov 16 2009, 6:09 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDN55kfYjYI
Skip 30 seconds from the beginning to see his humiliation when he sees the error in his hateful ways. Haters let the light of fear guide they're way in life. Just look at tv and see what the prohibitionists love to listen to. They long to tell someone off. Haters long to hit someone if they think they could get away with it. and some haters join groups and try to multiply they're hate into policies of hate. I bring you now to l.a. Its obvious I am right on.
why
Nov 16 2009, 5:53 pm
who elects these mentally challenged intolerant people who want only war with the innocent?
haters have every right to live on this earth, but to spread they're diseased ways is not the way of true and successful and prosperous and happy countries.
mindless sheep should have no vote to any city council, as the results are disastrous as can be seen from our economy.
Real World Wisdom
Nov 16 2009, 5:20 pm
I'm VERY seldom wrong . Hopefully ( for us ) this healthcare bullshit will be shot down by people with a brain .
Or maybe the Jan.2010 court hearing to determine Obama's eligibility to be President will go well and the bastard will be removed from office ( sorry Demo's you should have known better ). We have a few options .
We'll see ............
FUCK THAT!
Nov 16 2009, 4:41 pm
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