New effort to close pot shops

[unhappycamper]

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/aug/13/marijuana-dispensary-shutdown-struggling-harris/



Councilman wants transparent process as dispensaries create more turbulence

New effort to close pot shops
By David Garrick4:17 p.m.Aug. 13, 2014

SAN DIEGO — Frustrated that San Diego continues to struggle with shutting down illegal marijuana dispensaries, a city councilman wants to accelerate the process by making it more transparent.

Councilman Ed Harris, whose district includes coastal communities where many of the city’s roughly 100 illegal pot shops operate, wants city officials to issue monthly reports listing the addresses of all known dispensaries and what actions have been taken to shut them down.

“We want a flow chart of the process and an estimate of how long they expect it to take with each dispensary,” Harris said. “The goal is to clarify the process for me and for residents, so we know what needs to be done.”

The proposal comes as the abundance of illegal dispensaries has begun adding turbulence to the already complex approval process facing applicants trying to open the city’s first legal pot shops.

[JayhawkSD]

1. "abundance of illegal dispensaries"

San Diego governance is controlled by Neanderthals. The "abundance of illegal dispensaries" is caused by the City Council's inability to define what constitutes a "legal dispensary," by it's proclivity for changing such definitions as it does come up with, and for arriving at definitions which essentially outlaw all despensaries, such as "no dispensary may be located within five statute miles of any church, school or any home in which children reside."

California legalized medical Marijuana in 1996, and San Diego's Puritanical city government has been fighting that law ever since. This city does not believe it should be legal, and is attempting to override state law by establishing requirements for sales which will make the sale of it impossible. These people may have a Democratic majority, but they are idiots.

No, neither I nor anyone in my family uses Marijuana, I just object to the utter stupidity of a location using such inane methods to override laws of the larger community and the will of the people.