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 Desert Hot Springs bans medical marijuana dispensaries [CA]
#9447910 - 12/16/08 11:36 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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DHS bans medical marijuana dispensaries
December 16, 2008 - mydesert.com
Desert Hot Springs tonight became the fifth city in the Coachella Valley to ban medical marijuana dispensaries.
The City Council voted 4-1 to ban the dispensaries, with Councilman Karl Baker dissenting. The city’s moratorium expires in February, and the ban will take effect 30 days after a second reading in January, City Attorney Ruben Duran said.
Several on council said they worried a medical marijuana cooperative or collective would strain an understaffed city police department that has its hands full with crime.
“We’re right now in reactive mode with our police department,” Mayor Yvonne Parks said before the vote. “We have not gotten to the point where we can be proactive.”
Baker took a different view. “We’ve heard all these stories how this is going to be a drain on police department” but none are supported by fact, he said. Baker also criticized Duran for the staff report recommending the ban.
“I am very, very disturbed … that someone with a legal background presents something that is so heavily weighted one way,” he said.
Lanny Swerdlow, president of the Marijuana Anti-Prohibition Project, implored the council not to pass the ban. No one spoke in favor Tuesday.
Indian Wells, Indio, La Quinta and Palm Desert have banned dispensaries. Riverside County also has a ban in force for unincorporated areas.
Palm Springs passed a moratorium on dispensaries in March 2006 but allowed it to expire earlier this year. Coachella has an active moratorium.
Later in the meeting, a 4-1 vote kept Gabriel King on the Planning Commission. Baker and Councilman Al Schmidt proposed the discussion after comments King made at last week’s commission meeting on a proposed Art in Public Places program.
“The Building Industry Association has the right” to lobby against an arts program, King said Dec. 9, but local citizens “don’t have the tool of paid lobbyists or the promise of future campaign contributions to affect the vote.”
Schmidt, Baker and Parks said the comments crossed the line and implied council members were “on the take,” as Baker put it.
King did not attend the meeting. Baker said he would not vote to oust King and called Tuesday’s discussion a warning.
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Re: Desert Hot Springs bans medical marijuana dispensaries [CA] [Re: veggie]
#9448005 - 12/16/08 11:59 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Several on council said they worried a medical marijuana cooperative or collective would strain an understaffed city police department that has its hands full with crime.
o my fucking god
no statistics or any data to back that up, pure gay speculation based off of misinformation
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Re: Desert Hot Springs bans medical marijuana dispensaries [CA] [Re: Coaster]
#9449161 - 12/17/08 08:52 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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These are the real criminals, keeping the sick and dying away from medicine that will make their life easier..
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Re: Desert Hot Springs bans medical marijuana dispensaries [CA] [Re: hunter4321]
#9449251 - 12/17/08 09:17 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah, giving enterprising criminals a new way to make a lot of dough instead!
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Re: Desert Hot Springs bans medical marijuana dispensaries [CA] [Re: veggie]
#9449925 - 12/17/08 11:53 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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veggie said:
DHS bans medical marijuana dispensaries
December 16, 2008 - mydesert.com
Several on council said they worried a medical marijuana cooperative or collective would strain an understaffed city police department that has its hands full with crime.
Instead, he continued, we're going to devote our department's time and resources to arresting EVERYONE for using, selling and buying Cannabis, regardless of whether they have legitimate medical needs. "If people are going to buy weed in our city, they're gonna have to go to the real drug dealers to get it."
The ban is expected to vastly improve the city's problem with crime.
When asked to explain how that makes sense and provide tangible information blacking the claim, the chairman responded, "Shut up you stupid hippie."
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Re: Desert Hot Springs bans medical marijuana dispensaries [CA] [Re: bongoboy2000]
#9450010 - 12/17/08 12:13 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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bongoboy2000 said:
The ban is expected to vastly improve the city's problem with crime.
So many violent pot heads
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Re: Desert Hot Springs bans medical marijuana dispensaries [CA] [Re: veggie]
#9450025 - 12/17/08 12:16 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Problem solved right? I bet no one in that part of California will be able to get Marijuana now!! I hear it's super hard to get good bud in Cali!!! (lOlZoRZ!!!!)
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Re: Desert Hot Springs bans medical marijuana dispensaries [CA] [Re: PsilocybinMike]
#9451761 - 12/17/08 06:03 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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CA supreme court already ruled that counties cannot refuse state medical marijuana laws because of federal law. It just has not gone into effect yet, but it doesn't matter what they say it's going to change.
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Re: Desert Hot Springs bans medical marijuana dispensaries [CA] [Re: Coaster]
#9452901 - 12/17/08 09:00 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Coaster said:
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Several on council said they worried a medical marijuana cooperative or collective would strain an understaffed city police department that has its hands full with crime.
o my fucking god
no statistics or any data to back that up, pure gay speculation based off of misinformation
Way off, i would say 80% or more of the gay community in palm springs support MM. DHS is a meth ridden shit hole that no one goes to anyways. And yes I know you what you meant...
There is plenty of MM available in the valley for sure.
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Re: Desert Hot Springs bans medical marijuana dispensaries [CA] [Re: Knewnews]
#9453080 - 12/17/08 09:26 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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the only thing this ban does it decrease money comming into the county
b/c every other county surrounding it has MM
so ridiculous
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