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Hope you're getting your rest this holiday weekend.
Because tomorrow's a big day for the medical marijuana scene in Los Angeles. The L.A. City Council's Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) committee will take up all facets of proposed bans on medical cannabis in town.
A complete obliteration of Los Angeles' famous and numerous pot shops is on the table. There are two options that the committee will consider for its endorsement:
1). Imposing a "gentle ban" (PDF) proposed by city Councilman Paul Koretz. According his language it's a ...
... more reasonable approach to compliance could include a limited immunity approach whereby the City proceeds forward with a ban on dispensaries but uses its prosecutorial discretion to abstain from any enforcement action against the limited number of dispensaries that do not violate a set of City Council imposed restrictions. This approach would protect neighborhoods while still assuring limited safe access for patients within the confines of ever evolving case law.
Seems that it remains to be seen how the survivors would be chosen.
2). Banning all dispensaries until California Supreme Court weighs in on a Long Beach case (Pack v. City of Long Beach) that prohibited that city from regulating pot shops in a way that's being done in L.A. too (PDF).
In any case, a medical marijuana advocate told the Weekly over the weekend to expect "fireworks" at the PLUM committee meeting.
Pot supporters will be out in force.
The meeting starts at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at City Hall's Board of Public Works Roybal Hearing Room (Room 350), 200 N. Spring St. Info (PDF).
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Source: laweekly.com
Author: Dennis Romero
Contact: Los Angeles About Us LA Weekly
Website: Marijuana Dispensary Ban Considered at L.A. City Hall Tomorrow - Los Angeles News - The Informer
Because tomorrow's a big day for the medical marijuana scene in Los Angeles. The L.A. City Council's Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) committee will take up all facets of proposed bans on medical cannabis in town.
A complete obliteration of Los Angeles' famous and numerous pot shops is on the table. There are two options that the committee will consider for its endorsement:
1). Imposing a "gentle ban" (PDF) proposed by city Councilman Paul Koretz. According his language it's a ...
... more reasonable approach to compliance could include a limited immunity approach whereby the City proceeds forward with a ban on dispensaries but uses its prosecutorial discretion to abstain from any enforcement action against the limited number of dispensaries that do not violate a set of City Council imposed restrictions. This approach would protect neighborhoods while still assuring limited safe access for patients within the confines of ever evolving case law.
Seems that it remains to be seen how the survivors would be chosen.
2). Banning all dispensaries until California Supreme Court weighs in on a Long Beach case (Pack v. City of Long Beach) that prohibited that city from regulating pot shops in a way that's being done in L.A. too (PDF).
In any case, a medical marijuana advocate told the Weekly over the weekend to expect "fireworks" at the PLUM committee meeting.
Pot supporters will be out in force.
The meeting starts at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at City Hall's Board of Public Works Roybal Hearing Room (Room 350), 200 N. Spring St. Info (PDF).
News Hawk- TruthSeekr420 420 MAGAZINE
Source: laweekly.com
Author: Dennis Romero
Contact: Los Angeles About Us LA Weekly
Website: Marijuana Dispensary Ban Considered at L.A. City Hall Tomorrow - Los Angeles News - The Informer
