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This week, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa commented that he believes the City Council should work to create parameters that would "limit the number of medical marijuana dispensaries in the city," according to CBS2. He believes the current count of 8-900 is too high, and talk among the Council is to aim to cap "dispensaries at between 70 and 200."
The Mayor and the Council, however, could be working off an inaccurate tally, according to the LA Weekly, who have been investigating what they call "the largely unregulated nature of the city of Los Angeles' medical marijuana business." The Weekly "looked into each an every one of the more than 800 pot shops registered with City Hall and found that only 540 were actually operating."
What the Weekly is aiming to reveal is the extent to which the industry's latest crop of "retail establishments," stray from the original medical marijuana initiative, and their work may as a result indicate just how tangled a mess the City leaders are facing. In the meantime, the Council resumes talks on the issue next Wednesday; whatever ordinance they draft, Mayor Villaraigosa must issue approval for it to be implemented.
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Some 10,000 studies have been done on cannabis, 4,000 in the U.S., and only about a dozen have shown any negative results and these have never been replicated. The Reagan/Bush Administration put a soft “feeler” out in September of 1983 for all American universities and researchers to destroy all 1966-76 cannabis research work, including compendiums in libraries.
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70 dispensaries are much too few for a city of this size. Also, when reading some of this ordinance language, I've noticed that there is something in there about how the dispensaries will be equally located within the city's police divisions/precincts. This language indicates that the city council is blatantly alluding to an idea that there is still something illegal about medical cannabis which is ridiculous. What do police precincts have to do with the location of legal cannabis dispensaries? Police precincts should not be folded into this ordinance in any way whatsoever. This is more inept/incorrect/uninformed/fascist behavior coming from L.A. City government. All language referring to police should be removed from the ordinance before it is passed.