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Posted by CN Staff on May 03, 2010 at 15:46:51 PT By Christopher Palmeri Source: Bloomberg.com 
Bloomberg -- Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed an ordinance that will shut hundreds of marijuana dispensaries in the city and impose stricter regulations on the 186 remaining stores.The ordinance signed on April 30 caps a four-year effort by the city to address the proliferation of pot parlors, which the Los Angeles Police Department said led to an increase in crime. The nation’s second-largest city saw an explosion of marijuana stores in recent years to more than 500, according to the ordinance. The outlets began opening statewide after California voters in 1996 approved a ballot measure allowing medical use of marijuana. San Francisco and Oakland limit the numbers of outlets. The ordinance, approved by the City Council in January, caps the number of dispensaries at 70, while letting 116 that registered with the city before Nov. 13, 2007, stay in business. Operators of the other dispensaries will receive letters this week telling them to close, according to Frank Mateljan, a spokesman for the city attorney’s office. The remaining operators will be required to pay registration fees of $1,595 annually, Mateljan said. Employees will be subject to background checks and facilities subject to city inspection. The ordinance also requires the dispensaries be located at least 1,000 feet from places such as schools, parks and child- care facilities. A proposition on the statewide ballot in November would allow anyone over the age of 21 to possess, cultivate or transport marijuana for personal use. It would also permit local governments to tax marijuana production and sales, an estimated $15 billion a year business in California. Editors: Rob Golum, Anthony Palazzo. Source: Bloomberg.com (USA) CannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archives Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help
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Comment #4 posted by kaptinemo on May 03, 2010 at 17:14:28 PT:
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| More business for them. MMJ laws are just a means of showing how incredibly stupid drug prohibition laws in general are. And this is just more proof. This is the equivalent of adding another transmission, bigger headlights, and a street-legal loud muffler...for what amounts to a broken-down, rusted out, three-cylinders-dead, oil-dripping car up on blocks. Effin' useless. How dumb is the LA municipal government? [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #3 posted by augustwest on May 03, 2010 at 17:04:29 PT:
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| Are they talking about break ins? Isn't that petty property crime? I would think the fact that patients don't have to get robbed on the black market and the money not going to cartels would more than make up for a small increase in storehouse b&e. Aren't they embarrased when they complain about having to do thier job? [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #2 posted by goneposthole on May 03, 2010 at 16:56:46 PT |
| Close the doors of the cannabis clinics so street pot sales increase. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #1 posted by Sam Adams on May 03, 2010 at 16:34:41 PT |
| notice how the LAPD has functionally replaced the Pope? They issue decrees and we obey, regardless of fact or rationality. >>The ordinance signed on April 30 caps a four-year effort by the city to address the proliferation of pot parlors, which the Los Angeles Police Department said led to an increase in crime. The LAPD man-gods say that you mortals are guilty of CRIME! Now you must suffer the wrath of the gods! Read history and see how this was the way humans lived for many thousands of years [ Post Comment ] |
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