Saturday, March 5th, 2011
From John Hoeffel writing in the LA Times today:
But in Los Angeles, where voters decide Tuesday whether to create a pot tax, medical marijuana activists who once urged City Hall to tax and regulate them are hoping to defeat the proposal, angered by the council’s decision to limit the number of dispensaries to 100 and choose them by lottery.
“The city has done nothing for the patients, and I don’t see why the patients have to pay a sin tax. We’re not a topless bar,” said Yamileth Bolanos, a dispensary operator who leads a group of the city’s oldest collectives. “The city hasn’t even been able to enact an ordinance that creates safe access.”
Read the entire artcile online. Get out to vote NO on Measure M on Tuesday!
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Monday, January 31st, 2011
From the LA Times Article on this weekend’s CA NORML conference:
“The conference drew about 300 attendees, including Yamileth Bolanos, a dispensary operator from Los Angeles. Like others in the business who came to the event, she said she wants to be sure that medical marijuana is not undercut by a legalization initiative. “We shouldn’t be stomped on or used as a stepping stone to get to where they want to go,” she said.”
Read the entire story by John Hoeffel online.
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Ed Reyes
The Los Angeles City Council will not be voting this week on a medical cannabis ordinance approved by the Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee. The LA Times reports that City Councilmember Ed Reyes wants more time to resolve the complicated issues surrounding the ordinance, and staff at City Hall tell me that more committee hearings may proceed a vote by the full City Council. It is possible that a joint committee meeting between the PLUM and Public Safety Committees will address the necessary changes.
At this point, delay may be beneficial for patients. The City Attorney’s latest draft version has some big flaws – including lack of protection for patient privacy, a ban on edible preparations, and unreasonable restrictions on where collectives can be located. Americans for Safe Access (ASA) recommends substantial changes to the draft. It will be easier to make improvements like these at the committee level than it will be before fourteen or fifteen City Councilmembers.
City Councilmembers are right not to be bullied into adopting a bad ordinance. This issue is too complicated and important to rush.
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