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  Supervisors Vote To Allow Cannabis Clubs

Posted by CN Staff on July 19, 2006 at 06:32:48 PT
By April Charlton, Staff Writer 
Source: Santa Maria Times 

California -- With a 3-2 vote Tuesday, the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors approved adding medical marijuana dispensaries to the county's land use ordinance. But the supervisors didn't make it easy to open a cannabis club, as the dispensaries are commonly called.Nonprofit organizations looking to open and operate a dispensary in an unincorporated part of the county will have to apply for a minor use permit and go through a public hearing process.
A minor use permit costs $4,000, and the process can take between six and eight months to complete. Additionally, during the public hearing process, such conditions as restricted hours of operation and rules for security can be placed on the dispensaries.The supervisors are also requiring that the dispensaries operate only within commercial services or commercial retail zoning, which limits the facilities to mostly central business districts.The approval, in which 4th District Supervisor Katcho Achadjian was the swing vote, also prohibits dispensaries from operating within 1,000 feet of schools or youth and recreation centers.Despite a conflict between state and federal law, 5th District Supervisor Jim Patterson said he feels the supervisors have a duty to be compassionate. He made the motion to amend the county's land use ordinance to permit the establishment of cannabis clubs.“I think that Californians have spoken to the fact that this should be available,” Patterson said. “I don't think that we'd be aiding and abetting drug use. We owe to those suffering or in chronic pain to make their life better.”Californians passed Proposition 215, or the Compassionate Use Act, in 1996, legalizing marijuana for medicinal use. However, the federal government still lists marijuana as a controlled substance and continues to prosecute users and suppliers under federal drug laws.Third District Supervisor Jerry Lenthall voted against allowing the dispensaries because, he said, the overwhelming sentiment in his district is that the establishments aren't wanted.“One thing that I've heard loud and clear is ‘Not in my back yard,'” Lenthall said. “They just don't want (them), especially in Avila Beach. It's bad for business and bad for tourism.”A nonprofit organization - North County Resource Center - has proposed opening a dispensary on Ramada Drive in Templeton, but the location isn't zoned for commercial services or commercial retail.Morro Bay permits dispensaries, and Central Coast Compassionate Caregivers has been operating in that city for about a year. All South County cities have bans on the operation of dispensaries.According to statistics, at least 200,000 people across the state use marijuana for medicinal purposes.Source: Santa Maria Times (CA)Author: April Charlton, Staff WriterPublished: July 19, 2006Copyright: 2006 Pulitzer Central Coast NewspapersContact: smtletters pulitzer.netWebsite: http://www.santamariatimes.com/CannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml

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Comment #18 posted by afterburner on July 19, 2006 at 23:52:25 PT
Two More Reasons to Legalize & Fair Trials
Two More Reasons to Legalize:CN BC: PUB LTE: Make It Legal And Take Away The Scourge Of The Grow-Op, Chilliwack Progress, (18 Jul 2006) 
http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v06/n946/a10.html?176Excerpt: "there are still many people in responsible positions seemingly oblivious to the fact that the vast majority of grow-ops can be made to disappear -- at no cost -- by the simple act of making it legal for individuals to grow a few marijuana plants for personal use."CN SN: Publicity Leads To Pot Theft, Regina Leader-Post, (19 Jul 2006) 
http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v06/n947/a08.html?176{"Let me die in peace" is the message Tom Shapiro wants sent to two teenagers who broke into his Ottawa Street home early Monday morning and demanded he hand over his pot. The Regina man, who has a licence to grow and use marijuana to ease symptoms of AIDS, is now worrying for the safety of himself and his wife due to his advocacy of medical marijuana use.}Against Forfeiture:CN BC: Editorial: Utopia Now!, Robson Valley Times, (18 Jul 2006) 
http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v06/n947/a10.html?176
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Comment #17 posted by FoM on July 19, 2006 at 21:19:30 PT
AP: Court Declines To Rehear Pot King Case
The Associated PressPublished: Wednesday, July 19, 2006SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court declined Wednesday to review its decision overturning pot guru Ed Rosenthal's conviction for growing marijuana.Rosenthal, who has written books on how to grow marijuana and how to avoid getting caught, was convicted three years ago for cultivating hundreds of marijuana plants for a city of Oakland medical marijuana program.He was sentenced to one day in prison after U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said it was reasonable the Oakland man thought he was immune from prosecution because a 1996 state law allowed medical marijuana use.Both sides had appealed, with prosecutors seeking a stiffer sentence and the defendant seeking to clear his record.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the jury verdict in April because of misconduct by a juror who consulted an attorney on how to decide the case. It affirmed that decision Wednesday.Prosecutors declined to say whether they'll take the case to U.S. Supreme Court or seek a new trial.The case is United States v. Rosenthal, 03-10307.Copyright: 2006 Associated Presshttp://www.pe.com/ap_news/California2/CA_Pot_King_245891CA.shtml
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Comment #16 posted by mayan on July 19, 2006 at 17:30:27 PT
From Comment #1
"This is a continuation of the extraordinarily offensive DEA exhibit that uses pieces of wreckage from the World Trade Center with children's toys mixed in as a means of promoting the DEA!"Considering that the U.S. government was complicit in bringing down WTC #1,#2,#7 and is also complicit in drug smuggling, perhaps the Museum of Science and Industry would be a good place to protest or distribute some informative literature (at least until you got kicked out or arrested!).Thanks for the info, ekim! 
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Comment #15 posted by ekim on July 19, 2006 at 13:32:01 PT
Max maybe a play named that will happen
Comment #3 posted by Max Flowers on July 19, 2006 at 09:20:52 PT 
They got it all wrong 
Much more realistic and eye-opening would be to make it TARGET AMERICA: OPENING EYES TO THE DAMAGE THE DRUG WAR CAUSES
Now THERE'S an exhibit I'd be willing to see. 
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Comment #14 posted by afterburner on July 19, 2006 at 13:31:20 PT
I'm Ready for the Primary Vote
Thanks to the Internet, Project Vote Smart & Cannabis News.
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Comment #13 posted by ekim on July 19, 2006 at 13:23:21 PT
is anyone able to help Leap book speakers 
this is in response to the Museum of Science and Industry post #1. asking Howard Wooldridge of Leap to speak in Chicago. If anyone can help in there state or on the national level please give it some thought. 
---------------------------------------------------LEAP is having almost zero, volunteer help to push our education agenda,
except cops ready to speak. = no chance for Chicago or hardly anywhere
else.howard
http://www.leap.cc/events/
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Comment #12 posted by afterburner on July 19, 2006 at 13:17:49 PT
Don't Forget to Vote ... If You Want It
Project Vote Smart - Year 2006 NPAT Forms
http://www.vote-smart.org/program_npatforms_2006.php
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Comment #11 posted by lombar on July 19, 2006 at 12:06:06 PT
Strange numbers
According to statistics, at least 200,000 people across the state use marijuana for medicinal purposes.Hmmm. Consider that California has about the same population as Canada. In one state where the medicine is illegal federally but approved by the state, there are 200,000 medical users but in Canada, where medical marijuana is supposedly legal, there are about 2000 exemptees.
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Comment #10 posted by FoM on July 19, 2006 at 11:48:48 PT
Hope
It's all fixed. 
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Comment #9 posted by Hope on July 19, 2006 at 11:46:19 PT

knew I should have posted that right away...
Instead...I had to tend to something and came back and got that bad timing error...which doesn't happen anymore unless I let it sit for a bit before the final posting.Double post...but saved most to the original post with my new found copy and paste...sort of...skills on this laptop. Sorry about the double post and FoM, I'm sure will get rid of the extra post.Must remember...Timely. Timely. Timely.
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Comment #7 posted by Hope on July 19, 2006 at 11:29:46 PT

Many Americans ARE aware of the costs!
And they are becoming more and more aware of exactly who is running up the increasingly hideous tab!The last paragraph of ekim's post...I'm unable to get this computer to copy and past sections of that...but I've got something to say anyway."Most Americans aren't aware of the tremendous costs"? They are, in fact, becoming aware of the tremendous costs. They are realizing the tremendous cost is coming from Prohibition and the vast amount of money the government is sucking out of us all to pay for their welfare plan for prohibitionists and government involvement and all the lives and money wasted because of their unholy cause.In fact they are becoming all too aware. That's why the people who depend on prohibition to supply them the money for their egregiously earned living are getting worried and coming up with truly evil slight of hand maneuvering like the Target America propaganda. We are realizing that THEY in fact are the cause of the huge costs to all of us. Even this idiotic DEA Museum and the costs of the latest propaganda wool pulling are adding tremendously to the already unphantomable costs of their so called WoD. What a wod of evil and crap they are foisting on all of us and at even greater expense to all of us.I hate what they are doing to all of us and the whole world with their evil. The evil they deal out should be the evil that overtakes them. It's past time that it should take them. They really don't deserve the pity I have for them.How much longer must we endure their lying, thieving, cruelty, and killing?Vengence is not mine. But surely they deserve what must surely be coming their way.
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Comment #6 posted by afterburner on July 19, 2006 at 11:10:39 PT

San Luis Obispo
This is where they sent Dr. Leary before he escaped and became an international fugitive.
'Timothy Leary: A Biography,' by Robert Greenfield - The New York Times
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Comment #5 posted by lombar on July 19, 2006 at 10:02:58 PT

I just watched some of this
http://tinyurl.com/mpdtcListen Up with Lorna Dueck #251 - Marijuana ReformIf you listen to the obviously distraught reverend who had lost his police officer son, you can just sense the predjudice and hatred this person has for cannabis in particular. He claims that drugs are 'destroying our children and our society' but what forgiveness does he have for us? None, he wants us in a cage for our temerity, wants the state to steal our property, and destroy our lives to 'save the children'. Why don't they say it for what it is? No, 'we oppose changes to the law' is the stronger position , requires no examination of facts, and plays upon fear.At that time, cannabis was being blamed for the tradgedy, the suspect was being investigated for stolen car parts, had an extensive history of priors, and was known to hate cops.So where are all the bodies of these 'destroyed children'.. well in the USA they are in prison, who has really destroyed them???
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Comment #4 posted by Max Flowers on July 19, 2006 at 09:23:38 PT

Regarding the main story above
By the way, this is pretty big because San Luis Obispo County is one of the major hold-out counties in California with a violent, drug-war-happy, very bad sheriff's department.
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Comment #3 posted by Max Flowers on July 19, 2006 at 09:20:52 PT

They got it all wrong
Much more realistic and eye-opening would be to make it TARGET AMERICA: OPENING EYES TO THE DAMAGE THE DRUG WAR CAUSESNow THERE'S an exhibit I'd be willing to see.
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Comment #2 posted by afterburner on July 19, 2006 at 08:21:10 PT

ekim
More names for the boycott list. Remember! Remember the damages to families, communities, the economy, the environment, science, medicine, U.S. law, and human rights caused by the cruel merciless War on Cannabis.
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Comment #1 posted by ekim on July 19, 2006 at 08:00:27 PT

Museum of Science and Industry
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/
A childhood memory about to be stained...Growing up in Chicago, I have many fond memories of the Museum of Science and Industry. I spent so many hours in that place that I have as much sense memory of parts of it as I do the house I lived in as a kid. I loved science, and the museum encouraged discovery. Sure, some of the exhibits were a little hokey, but you still had fun and learned at the same time.
It is therefore with much concern that I note that the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry will be hosting the DEA propaganda device called "Target America: Opening Eyes to the Damage Drugs Cause", opening August 11 and running until December.It's an exhibit developed in partnership with AFFNA DEA Museum Foundation, The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, The National Guard, The National Institute on Drug Abuse, The Office of National Drug Control Policy, The Partnership for a Drug Free America, and presented by McDonald's.Additional sponsors include: Motorola Foundation, The Crown Family, Chicago Blackhawk Hockey Team, Inc., Chicago Sun Times, Richard Driehaus Charitable Lead Trust, The Brunswick Foundation, Chicago Community Trust, Aon Corporation, Bensinger, DuPont & Associates, Judd A. & Marjorie Weinberg Family Foundation, LaSalle Bank, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Reyes Holdings, Wintrust Financial, Peter B. Bensinger, Jr., William Blair & Company LLC, The Ryne & Margaret Sandberg Foundation, Steans Family Foundation, Mr. & Mrs. David O. MacKenzie, The Bernard Rinella Family Charitable Fund, J.B. Charitable Trust (Philip D. and Judith S. Block), Margaret & Philip Block Jr. Family Foundation, Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Crawford, Jr.Some letters to the Sun Times may be in order...This is a continuation of the extraordinarily offensive DEA exhibit that uses pieces of wreckage from the World Trade Center with children's toys mixed in as a means of promoting the DEA!I wrote to Lisa Miner, the press representative at the Museum over a month ago, but haven't heard anything back yet. All i wanted to know is whether, as a museum, MSI exerted any curatorial decision-making over their exhibits, or whether they just accepted it as is because it was sponsored.TARGET AMERICA: OPENING EYES TO THE DAMAGE DRUGS CAUSE
August 11 - December 3, 2006
Most Americans are unaware of the tremendous costs associated with the production, sale and use of illegal drugs. The costs to society (estimated at more than $60 billion a year) are borne by all of us in some way. This exhibit is designed to open eyes to the myriad costs of drugs -- to individuals, American society and the world -- and to inform people of how those in the illegal drug trade are caught and brought to justice with current science and technology. Target America is an exhibit from the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum that presents both a global and historical overview of the many costs of drugs on society, as well as the drug trade[base ']s connection to terrorism. 

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