Two pot stops tops: City leaders consider new rules for medicin...

In a city famous for its tolerance of marijuana, leaders will consider allowing no more than the two existing medical dispensaries within city limits, despite the federal administration's increasing acceptance of the medicinal herb.

[Ben Dover]

What about free enterprise?

What about tourism?

[palmspringsbum]

Well, it looks like I'll be spending eight hours taking the bus and train to San Francisco to get medicine for the rest of my life because it's $150 per ounce cheaper there, and better quality.

One thing's for sure, I will never, ever, for any reason, set foot in Greenway again.

[john doe]

Ben Dover wrote:

The recommendation comes after a city study showed that only one-quarter of customers shopping in the two dispensaries live within Santa Cruz city limits.

"We're interested in the city of Santa Cruz and its citizens, certainly not outside of the county," said Mike Ferry, city planner. "The two dispensaries are more than adequate."

In addition, other, larger cities restrict their own dispensaries to two or three, Ferry said.

San Jose = 0 dispensaries
Salinas = 0 dispensaries
Watsonville = 0 dispensaries
Monterey = 0 dispensaries
Hollister = 0 dispensaries

Santa Cruz is the Mecca for potheads from all over the central coast region and beyond

[Woo hoo]

john doe wrote:

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San Jose = 0 dispensaries
Salinas = 0 dispensaries
Watsonville = 0 dispensaries
Monterey = 0 dispensaries
Hollister = 0 dispensaries
Santa Cruz is the Mecca for potheads from all over the central coast region and beyond

Santa Cruz, baby - love it or leave it!

[Illegal anyone]

Collectives by law are suppose to be non-profit and are limited to their membership. They are NOT permitted to obtain marijuana from outside of the collective and they are not permitted to provide marijuana outside the collective. Get a clue Santa Cruz residents. These dispensaries are nothing more than drug dealers. I am amazed the city attorney and city council do not know the law in this area. The AG's guidelines are very clear. These numbers and the implied sources of marijuana sound like admissions. Why aren't these drug dealers being prosecuted? Why is the city permitting this? Furthermore the feds are still going after dispensaries, they are just going after more large scale operations. Santa Cruz has gotten to liberal and tolerant for its own good.

[FedUp]

I'm sure medical pot helps a small percentage of people, unfortunately there is just too much money to be made selling this stuff. We've created FRANKEN-POT laws were on one hand anyone with a card can blaze up where ever they see fit, and go to the dispensaries and re-stock on the black market's number one seller any time they wish. Seems like we have drastically high levels of 20 somethings with conic back problems and weed cards.

The state needs to run it like liquor is done in other states. ABC stores , Alcoholic Beverage Control, state run, state profit, not a whole lot of people running stills competing for business.

Medical Pot causes more problems than it solves. Name one other prescription drug that is as easily exploited as weed.

It's too bad, but I am beginning to realize that we are not responsible enough for all of the liberal policies that have shaped and in the end harmed Santa Cruz for the past 30 years. Change - YES WE CAN!!!!

[palmspringsbum]

FedUp wrote:

Medical Pot causes more problems than it solves. Name one other prescription drug that is as easily exploited as weed.

Prozac, Oxycodone, Ritalin.

That's three. Want more?

(You don't have a CLUE what you're babbling about.)

[stop working illegals]

THERES ALL THE POT YOU NEED AT THE LAURAL PARK LOUDEN NELSEN CENTER ITS RIGHT NEXT TO THE COP STATION ITS AVAILABLE ALL DAY LONG NO PROBLEM COPS ARE CLUELESS SO COME ON DOWN NO MED LICENCE NEEDED JUST LOOK FOR A BRO OR HIPPIE THEY HANG OUT ALL DAY WITHOUT A WORRY IN THE WORLD. POT IS FLOWING FREELY AT LAUREL PARK ITS A NO BRAINER.

[stop working illegals]

Woo hoo wrote:

<quoted text>
Santa Cruz, baby - love it or leave it!

LOUDEN NELSEN CENTER PARK ANYTHING YOU NEED ANY TIME POLICE STATION IS RIGHT NEXT DOOR AND THEY HAVE NOT A CLUE COME ON DOEN DRUG STORE IS OPEN, FIND A BRO HE'LL TAKE CARE OF YA OR LOOK FOR THEM BY THE SUBWAY ON PACIFIC THEY HAVE ANYTHING YA NEED COPS ARE CLUEESS.

[Woo hoo]

stop working illegals wrote:

<quoted text>LOUDEN NELSEN CENTER PARK ANYTHING YOU NEED ANY TIME POLICE STATION IS RIGHT NEXT DOOR AND THEY HAVE NOT A CLUE COME ON DOEN DRUG STORE IS OPEN, FIND A BRO HE'LL TAKE CARE OF YA OR LOOK FOR THEM BY THE SUBWAY ON PACIFIC THEY HAVE ANYTHING YA NEED COPS ARE CLUEESS.

Dude, at the left side of your keyboard, there's a key called "caps-lock". Try using it some time.

[Serf City]

I have a feeling that Mary Jane is going to get legalized in California in a year or two. The propositions are already being prepared.

The idiots on the city council should be preparing on how they want to deal with that rather than wring their hands over the MM dispensaries.

Honestly, I don't want my little hometown to become Stonerville, but it could probably capitalize heavily on the inevitable.

After all, the liberals have destroyed the real economy. With dope, we might have one cash crop that might disperse a little wealth.

[Why]

kev wrote:

W T F ARE CAP LOCKS??

U R to stoned to know

[Lucas]

kev wrote:

W T F ARE CAP LOCKS??

CAP LOCKS are a hybrid strain of marijuana. Usually sold as clones but seeds are available from mail order houses in the Netherlands. It's reported to be 75 percent indica and 25 percent sativa. Early flowering, lots trichomes and a mellow high has made CAPS LOCKS a favorite. Please see you local Marijuana Professional for more information.

[Pots spots tops]

What do you do when you come to a green light?

[pat]

Serf City wrote:

I have a feeling that Mary Jane is going to get legalized in California in a year or two. The propositions are already being prepared.
The idiots on the city council should be preparing on how they want to deal with that rather than wring their hands over the MM dispensaries.
Honestly, I don't want my little hometown to become Stonerville, but it could probably capitalize heavily on the inevitable.
After all, the liberals have destroyed the real economy. With dope, we might have one cash crop that might disperse a little wealth.

i hope so, then we might be a freer state

[blah blah blah]

don lane you are a joke. I could care less if SC allows more dope stores, but don you always say that you are going to hold off until you know more. All issues are on the agenda well before the city council meetings. When will you start to learn about up coming issues at city council meetings? So that you can cast your vote.. Don?

[Actually]

palmspringsbum wrote:

Well, it looks like I'll be spending eight hours taking the bus and train to San Francisco to get medicine for the rest of my life because it's $150 per ounce cheaper there, and better quality.
One thing's for sure, I will never, ever, for any reason, set foot in Greenway again.

Good, why don't you stay away, and do you ever do anything useful?

[tamma]

palmspringsbum wrote:

Well, it looks like I'll be spending eight hours taking the bus and train to San Francisco to get medicine for the rest of my life because it's $150 per ounce cheaper there, and better quality.
One thing's for sure, I will never, ever, for any reason, set foot in Greenway again.

Good, why don't you move up there and rid us of your whining.

[Lucas]

The top planning commissioner (Tom Burns) and his two side kicks are quitting their jobs after questionable behavior and suspicious circumstances and city council members are being sued as individuals in a Santa Clara Co. court. Now they are saying no more pot dispensaries. Coincidence? I think not.

[follow the money]

Dollars to doughnuts that the two dispensaries allowed to have a duopoly are paying off the city council somehow, either legally or otherwise. Use the power of govt. to limit the competition. Works for schoolteachers, why not pot growers?