Marijuana Dispensary Group in L.A. Goes All Out for Statewide Pot Shop Law

• Sales of cannabis for medical purposes is perfectly legal in this state.  Read what prop 215 already says, "affordable", which denotes commerce.  What else would we pay with?  Sexual favors.

• One thing I keep seeing ignored in these articles is the fact that NONE of the dispensary/collectives in LA are actually SELLING anything. From a legal standpoint: When you join a collective you become part owner of the collective so when you go in to get your flowers/meds you are picking up what already belongs to you, and you are DONATING to the collective for its operating cost. A fact that the ignorant police and city officials keep conveniently forgetting (as well as the LA weekly since they almost never mention that point).

• Has anyone actually read the initiative?  This thing will make whoever is on the board a God of medical cannabis.  It will eliminate most of the competition of GLACA here in LA since the board members will be made up of the same people who have been trying to influence policy for their own good.  I could tell you who will sit on the board.  First, Don Duncan, Second, Michael Bauchus from the old Cornerstone collective.  Third, Sara Armstrong.  Fourth, Yami Bolinas.  All of whom are on GLACA, and support this initiative.  Come on LA weekly.  Don't make me break this story for you.  This is a huge money grab, power grab, and a conspiracy to control wholesale prices all while saying "we don't price fix".  Yeah, they don't price fix their retail prices, but they'll be dammed if they pay more then a certain amount for the medicine they get from patients.  I was in the owners meetings when the fixing was discussed. This initiative is only to protect the interests of a few and if surely not meant to protect patients.  The City of Los Angeles is a culpable inn this also.  They have been lying in bed with these folks and maybe their plan was to keep fumbling the ball in order to make the voters believe that we are in need of such legislation.   The way this was written was to clear, every other dispensary will have to shut down in three years unless you pay to play.  Anyone who gets shut down then would never be allowed to be involved again.  Any grower or activists who have been locked up for providing medicine wouldn't be allowed to be involved either.  Whoever wrote this, and is financially backing this initiative should be investigated under the RICO statutes.  

•  So since the self serving, self righteous, GLACA and ASA couldn't manipulate city council to put the other pot shops out of business, they figure they'd manipulate the voters instead.  They didn't realize that when you lie down with politicians you get exactly what you ask for, screwed.  Now it is time to ask for harsher penalties on everyone but themselves.  This is sickening.  I don't see the sky falling in Los Angeles from all the pot shops.  In fact, I see a lower violent crime rate in our city even though we are in a recession.  So what is the problem? I can tell you, a certain group of people have been trying to influence this from the inside for years and years.  They have spent big money trying to draft a favorable policy(for themselves) over the last 5-7 years.  Now they are just they same as the guy who opened up today.  The city admits it, they screwed this one up, there is no ordinance which they can enforce.  So they have to do something to get the new dispensaries shut down that they have been trying to shut down for the last couple of years. They claim this bill as a good thing, yet it will impose penalties for anyone doing the same actions as they will be doing.  Where is the equal protection in that?  Where is the freedom of commerce with this?  This is sad. 

• Yes!  The voters asked for it!  Tax it, regulate it, profit from it!   come on!  Get your act together LA!

• Penny Shopper actually paid me to leave.

• Regulate Marijuana Like Wine has raised 3 times as much money and its on record not rumor. Take a look. It is polling with California Voters at 62%!!!

• Where are the other initiatives mentioned?

• YES

• More information is needed.  What will the new statute say about profit.  Trutanich is lying about the present law's prohibiting the dispensaries from making a profit.  It says it takes no position on whether making a profit is allowed or not allowed.  Being neutral does not equal prohibiting making a profit. If the new statute should forbid making a profit, then the statute will wipe out medical marijuana as it would force all ill people to join a dispensary and participate in the cultivating of the Pot in order to partake.  When city councilmen help manufacture the penicillin they take for their recurring bouts of Gonorrhea, then maybe we can ask the elderly with debilitating arthritis to take toe in hand and cultivate their own medicine.

• Read the link that leads from his name in the story. We did a piece on him.

• Hell no I won't vote! Don Duncan and friends are grasping for straws. Too little too late and he is wearing his clown shoes.

• Why don't reporters ask more questions about Don Duncan?  Who this guy is and where he gets his money?  What are his motives?  Why did he have his own parking space under sity hall?  

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