We got trouble, right here in river city

[Guest]

Santa Cruz City Council Chambers, Tuesday, 3pm, Emergency moratorium on dispensaries:

http://64.175.136.240/sirepub/cache/...9084514304.PDF

And the emergency?

http://64.175.136.240/sirepub/cache/...9083523788.PDF

TWO (2) applications to open a dispensary on the West Side.

Now folks, they stalled Greenway for six months. Lisa had to get a lease and pay rent on a commerical space for six months before they gave her a business license and allowed her to open up shop.

[al-Mu'akhkhir]

are you aware that nearly every city that has a river running through it is referred to as "River City"?

[mothernature]

I live in 'river city'

[Guest]

Santa Cruz considers moratorium on new medical marijuana dispensaries

By Genevieve Bookwalter
Posted: 06/21/2009 06:49:53 AM PDT

SANTA CRUZ - Almost every day, someone calls the city's Planning Department for information on how to open a medical marijuana dispensary.

Since the Obama administration announced in February that federal medical marijuana raids were over, Santa Cruz entrepreneurs have come to view dispensing the prescription drug - which is legal under state laws but illegal under federal ones - as a potentially safe and profitable business, said Assistant Planning Director Alex Khoury. Two applications have been filed for dispensaries on the Westside.

As a result of the interest, city leaders on Tuesday will consider a temporary moratorium on new medical pot shops while they review rules governing the businesses, including where they can operate and how many the city should allow. There are two existing shops in Harvey West.

Before President Obama took office, "I'd think we'd get an occasional call now and then," Khoury said. "But there was nowhere near the interest since, I think, the first of the year."

For those who operated medical marijuana dispensaries, which sell the drug to people with prescriptions, the fear of being raided during the Bush administration was real. Local advocates Valerie and Mike Corral, who run the patients' collective Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana, were arrested in 2002 by federal agents, who seized more than 160 plants from the Davenport farm. The case pushed medical marijuana into the national spotlight. In protest of the raid, the Santa Cruz City Council allowed the Corrals to pass out marijuana to patients on City Hall steps later that year.

But now, city leaders will consider a 45-day moratorium on new dispensaries, allowing them to re-examine rules crafted in 2000 that govern the businesses. Currently, Khoury said, dispensaries are allowed in neighborhoods zoned for industrial or commercial use. Governments regulate liquor stores in a similar way, limiting where in a city they can do business and how many are allowed in town.

Santa Cruz is the only municipality in the county that allows medical marijuana dispensaries. Greenway Compassionate Relief Inc., which opened in 2005, and the Santa Cruz Patients Collective, which opened in 2006, both do business in Harvey West.

Applications have been filed for dispensaries on Ingalls Street across from the Swift Street Courtyard complex, and on Mission Street about a block east of Safeway.

Stuart Kriege of Santa Cruz is applying to open the shop on Ingalls Street, and said he has been reaching out to neighbors to assure them that his dispensary would be well-run and responsible. He declined to elaborate on other details of his plan.

"We're trying to be good members of the community," Kriege said.

Councilman Don Lane said, considering the increase in interest, he supports a moratorium on new medical marijuana dispensaries to give the city time to ensure all rules are in order.

"I wouldn't want to send the signal that we're just trying to stop something," Lane said. "It's just taking a relatively brief moment to make sure we've got it right."

Santa Cruz considers moratorium on new medical marijuana dispensaries - Santa Cruz Sentinel

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[Guest]

You may or may not have noticed the links in the first post don't work anymore.

The city moved them. I was about to write an article about this and instead spent about an hour looking for them.

Here they are.

Agenda Report

http://64.175.136.240/sirepub/cache/...9052455335.PDF

AN UNCODIFIED INTERIM ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ
IMPOSING A TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MEDICAL
MARIJUNANA DISPENSARIES AND PRODUCTION HOUSES IN THE CITY OF SANTA
CRUZ AND DECLARING THE URGENCY THEREOF.

http://64.175.136.240/sirepub/cache/...9051116929.PDF

[seattle420lover]

go to the meeting and raise hell! make em listen to you!
don't be afraid to sign up to speak!
stop the prohibitionists

[Guest]

When I Googled the news this morning I thought there were over 200 stories on this, but it turns out all but about 3 of them are about Los Angeles and other cities.

Here is a video from the closest TV station (Santa Cruz doesn't have it's own TV station) about this: http://www.ksbw.com/news/19805342/detail.html

And here's my article in examiner.com: http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-1...ary-moratorium

[Geeno]

first name references? as if anyone else knows or cares what their name is

[Mydriasis]

Palmspringsbum I really liked your article. I really do hope they don't instate this "moratorium". Even though my state has yet to have medical cannabis.

[Guest]

Palmspringsbum I really liked your article. I really do hope they don't instate this "moratorium". Even though my state has yet to have medical cannabis.

Thanks. Last I checked, a few minutes ago, I had earned 68 cents for the previous article.

Evidently they pay by the view.

The meeting went pretty much as expected, a unanimous voice vote for the moratorium. Also, as expected, the council wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.

Looks like the Sentinel Reporter beat me by 15 minutes getting an article out. I was really hoping to beat them.

Here is mine: Santa Cruz passes 45-day moratorium on marijuana dispensaries

And here is theirs: Pot dispensary moratorium approved in Santa Cruz - Santa Cruz Sentinel

Later, now 11pm and mine comes up ahead of the Sentinel article on Google search.

[DdC]

Trouble, oh we got trouble,
Right here in River City!
With a capital "T"
That rhymes with "P"
And that stands for Pool,
That stands for pool.
We've surely got trouble!
Right here in River City,
Right here!
Gotta figger out a way
To keep the young ones moral after school!
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble...

Ya Got Trouble from...

[Guest]

It's sing-a-long time:

[DdC]

20 years in Santa Crud and I haven't met the first progressive yet. Camping bans or herding kids out of the tourist traps. Morontoriums? Its really none of their damn business. These are the Liberals buying the police tank. Those selling out to 300 room resort developers, with 300 environmentally approved toilets flushing into the River. And 300 bags of garbage to dump in the landfills. 300 more cars to add to the Shell/Exxon friendly traffic jams. Green zones with no meaning other than caging illegal sleepers. Developers lawyers have more power to enforce the right to stucco instant neighborhoods. Making room for another Starwarbucks, NAFTA/GAP or Burden books. Lowest priority laws, yet now taxes spent enforcing what ain't none of their business.

Same as Sonoma and Arcata government councils. Deeming themselves authority over citizens initiatives. I knew rednecks in Florida with more compassion. Pseudo hippies dykes and fairies wearing suits and ties, driving SUV's to yoga class. They all know the truth of Ganja and the lies of Nixon and Reefer Madness. Yet they also see a chance to seed their own buyers club interests. Jerry Brownose is doing what Lungreen couldn't. Sneaky liberal fascist are more dangerous. Klintoon and Shalalgans shelving the IOM study. Bore Gore and his Occidental Oil Plan in Colombia. Bliedums RAVE Ax lie or Canadian puppets following US Military/Prison/Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex masters, siding with mandatory minimums. These Neo-libs in shorts and Burkinstocks are just gay and longer haired Neo-cons. But then again we could be in Scam DEAgo.

REPORTERS, POLITICIANS DISTORT MARIJUANA DISCOURSE

Nixon Lie Keeps on Killing

' Emergency room admissions up from marijuana? '
~ Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN)

"As this statistic indicates, marijuana use often has fatal consequences."
~ Reefer Madness, Courtesy of Senator Tom Harkin and DAWN

Note. Compassionate Use Act not the MMJ Act

HS 11362.5. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Compassionate Use Act of 1996.

* has been recommended by a physician

* person's health would benefit

* or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief.

* no physician in this state shall be punished,

* Illegal possession and cultivation of marijuana,
shall not apply to a patient, or to a patient's primary caregiver

* upon the written or oral recommendation or approval of a physician

* The department shall establish and maintain a voluntary program for the issuance of identification cards to qualified patients who satisfy the requirements of this article and voluntarily apply to the identification card program.

* "Qualified patient" means a person who is entitled to the protections of Section 11362.5, but who does not have an identification card issued pursuant to this article.

* It shall not be necessary for a person to obtain an identification card in order to claim the protections of Section 11362.5.

* A qualified patient or a person with an identification card

* Any individual who provides assistance

* A designated primary caregiver who transports, processes, administers, delivers, or gives away marijuana for medical purposes

* (a) Subject to the requirements of this article, the individuals specified in subdivision (b) shall not be subject, on that sole basis, to criminal liability.

Politicians and Cops are not necessary!

Santa Cruz: The Pot Spot? 02/17/02

[Guest]

20 years in Santa Crud and I haven't met the first progressive yet. Camping bans or herding kids out of the tourist traps. Morontoriums? Its really none of their damn business. These are the Liberals buying the police tank. Those selling out to 300 room resort developers ... I knew rednecks in Florida with more compassion....

So true. I will regret to my dying day not taking my chances in Alabama.

I've been saying this place is just Alabama with better hair. But the fact is, Alabama is refreshingly honest and courteous by comparison.

"As long as there is evidence of medical necessity, they will look the other way," said Rotkin, after meeting with the Sheriff, police department officials and the district attorney. "I don't think there is a court in the county that will convict if medical necessity is proven."

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/200...how_comments=1

So Roger Mentch and the Hemporium was raidied for the third time by the state ... Thank Prosecutor Bob Lee's relentless harassment of Mentch for the bad California Supreme Court decision that has put in danger all marijuana clubs. It was his repeated prosecution of Mentch that led there. Proposition 215 now, apparently, does not protect retail clubs unless they are direct caregivers or patient collectives. So Greenway and Ken Sampson's club, as well as scores of others around the state are illegal under the medieval Marijuana Prohibition Laws.

Thanks, Bob. Now the California Supreme Court has adopted your position that ALL marijuana clubs are illegal. Oh, yeah, except for the ones your politically-connected Santa Cruz-city friends on the City Council back.

Bob Lee | District Attorney | County of Santa Cruz
http://sccounty01.co.santa-cruz.ca.u...ternet/bio.asp

[DdC]

Bob Lee's a dick. I met him when he was running for office.
Said he was all for medicinal "marijuana".
How about not caging healthy people Bob?
Oh no, there are 3rd graders in Watsonville shooting heroin.
WTF? Another dipshit DA licks the fascist hand that feeds him.
Saveding the kids from burlap and canvas. Way to go Blob...

Eradicated Marijuana Is 98 Percent Ditchweed

Ganja/Hemp



PS: Central Florida is the illiterate refugees from Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Carolinens and King Georgians who came for the orange pickin and stayed.