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Marijuana near school stirs former Keizer councilor action
#7522562 - 10/16/07 10:36 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071016/NEWS/710160322
Former Keizer city councilor Chuck Lee has requested that city officials look into creating an ordinance that would ban Oregon medical marijuana providers from growing near schools.
On Thursday, Keizer Police investigated the theft of live medical marijuana plants from Anthony Beasley, who lives near McNary High School, police spokesman Capt. Jeff Kuhns said.
Kuhns said that although police found that the medical marijuana provider was in compliance with state law, he has received feedback from many Keizer residents about the issue.
"I've heard from plenty of citizens (who) don't think marijuana should be grown in that fashion," Kuhns said. "The law needs to be looked at again."
Lee, who wrote the letter as a private citizen, submitted the letter to city officials before news of the theft was made public. He said heard about the grower more than three weeks ago.
Lee is a member of the Salem-Keizer school board and the president of Blanchet Catholic School.
Lee said he is not against the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program but felt that a city ordinance or state law should be crafted that would prohibit all medical marijuana operations from within 1,000 feet of a school. A similar statute exists for possession or delivery of illegal drugs.
"I think it's a loophole through the medical marijuana law," Lee said.
Beasley, a legitimate medical marijuana grower, said he has been under the program for about eight months. Beasley said living so close to the school wasn't ideal, but he wanted to find a property suitable for his operation.
Beasley said he was trying to avoid attention to his property by keeping his place secure. It was early Wednesday morning when Keizer police contacted him while investigating a neighbor's report of an armed person in the area. Since then, he has placed tarps to block the plants from view.
Lee said that if the proposal dies at the city level, he's prepared to seek a change in state law.
"I just hope that we can avoid something like that from happening again in Keizer or maybe in any other school," Lee said. "We want to be careful of the safety and the welfare of the kids. Growing marijuana a couple of feet of where they're parking cars is not ideal."
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Re: Marijuana near school stirs former Keizer councilor action [Re: Bridgeburner]
#7524036 - 10/16/07 04:07 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ignorant fucks as usual. Playing the "keeping our kids safe card"
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Re: Marijuana near school stirs former Keizer councilor action [Re: pabloescabar]
#7525218 - 10/16/07 08:17 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Run the pot plant is after us. We have to save the kids !!!!!
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Re: Marijuana near school stirs former Keizer councilor action [Re: Brainiac]
#7525548 - 10/16/07 09:18 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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right, these dumbfucks act like these dispensaries are just going to hand MJ out to every person who walks up, regardless of whether or not they're underage.
Newsflash, you Fascist shitheads: IT DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT. These places have rules and regulations they follow. Just because marijuana is near a school does not mean the place is going to be handing out dimebags to little Timmy and Suzie.
Grow the fuck up and stop using "the children" to push your ideals on people. Most, and I stress this because there are some bullshitters, people who take advantage of a dispensary have a medical need to do so. Other medications have not helped, have unpleasant side effects, etc. To say that a place that is trying to serve a greater cause is going to pass out pot to kids is just fucking malicious.
DISPENSARIES ARE NOT STREET DEALERS. Even if they were, most dealers don't just walk up to little kids and make them buy drugs. Pull your head out of your ass and realize buying drugs is a two-way street. The kids have something to do with it, too.
All in all, the right-wing opponents of medical marijuana dispensaries are trying to make these places, their owners, and their employees look like some kind of common street criminals. All these places want to do is offer relief to sick people, not sell drugs to your kids.
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I just shat my pants.
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Re: Marijuana near school stirs former Keizer councilor action [Re: Bridgeburner]
#7526447 - 10/17/07 01:51 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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"I've heard from plenty of citizens (who) don't think marijuana should be grown in that fashion," Kuhns said. "The law needs to be looked at again." I wonder how many people they have heard from saying the anti-drug laws need to be looked at again. They seem to be listening to the people this time, so I guess they will also listen to the hundreds of thousands more people who think it should be legal. Right?
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Re: Marijuana near school stirs former Keizer councilor action [Re: Muffin]
#7526702 - 10/17/07 05:41 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I hear alcohol near schools is a real problem as well. Perhaps we need to pass a law making it illegal to have alcohol within 1000 feet of a school... Oh, and lets not forget tobacco while we are at it... nothing with tobacco in it within 1000 feet of a school. Might as well outlaw car exhaust too; it is pretty dangerous and we don't want our children breathing exhaust fumes... so no roads within 1000 feet of a school.
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