Pot shop debate hits home
Local cities weigh in on medical cannabis dispensaries
It’s not so easy being green in Placer County, particularly for those looking to open a commercial medical cannabis dispensary. Recently the towns of Colfax and Loomis have put a moratorium in place prohibiting medical marijuana shops from opening. Officials from both towns say they will take the next 10 months to research the issue before making a final decision. Other county cities, including Auburn, have ordinances in place not allowing commercial storefront medical marijuana dispensaries. Federal law declaring medical marijuana as illegal was the reason most of those cities opted to not allow the shops. There is one, however, that has been quietly thriving in Colfax. The Golden State Patient Care Collective is now operating in its fifth year in the small foothills town and its owners say they hope to continue helping people.
Collective care “We’re really low profile,” said Jim Henry, co-owner of Golden State Patient Care Collective. “The most advertising we do is that sign up front.” Henry and his partner have operated the collective since 2004. They say a mix of tight security surrounding the premises coupled with strict guidelines for dispensing medical cannabis has made their operation successful. The collective uses cannabis that other collective members grow. As allowed by state law, the members can sell the marijuana they don’t use for themselves in a collective, Henry said. At the Colfax collective, an eighth of an ounce of marijuana can cost between $5 and $60. Nevada City resident Karen Stone said she makes the trip to the Colfax collective about once or twice a month and pays about $25 to $60 for the quarter of an ounce of marijuana her doctor recommends. She said the drug helps calm her anxiety, depression and insomnia. “I stand up 100,000 percent for this being legalized,” Stone said Monday after purchasing cannabis. The 63-year-old said cannabis has worked “better than anything” else she’s tried. Tim, a fellow Golden State collective patient, who withheld his last name, said his cannabis recommendation helps pain that came after he broke his back. “It helps me with my breakthrough pain and my sleeping,” Tim said. “Because I’m using this medicine, I’m not using as much morphine for my pain.”
A marijuana moratorium At recent Colfax and Loomis council meetings, members have tabled a decision of whether to allow medical marijuana dispensaries in town limits. Staffs from both towns plan to research the laws regarding medical marijuana and Loomis officials want to poll residents and business owners. Ken Delfino, Colfax city councilmember, said city staff plans to sort out confusion over state, federal and county laws regarding medical marijuana. “The state allows it but the feds say we can’t have it so until somebody makes up their minds, I’m not voting in support of anything,” Delfino said. Delfino added that while he’s not heard of any problems with the collective in Colfax, he said he would not support opening another one in the area. “Having more than what we have now is not what this community is about,” Delfino said. Gary Liss, Loomis vice mayor, said he hopes to get a sense of what residents and business members feel about allowing a collective in their area. He said town representatives plan to research the concerns such as potential traffic and crime impacts as well as benefits including potential sales tax revenue. “How this issue fits in with providing for our regional needs is one of the things that needs to be addressed,” Liss said. Colfax resident Robert Dearwester is one citizen in particular who will be watching for Loomis’ decisions. Dearwester filed an application to open a medical cannabis collective in Loomis. Dearwester said he would like to open a collective in that area because it’s a middle point between Colfax, home to one collective, and Sacramento, where there are about 30. Dearwester said he believes many people have a fear of what such a business in their area would mean. He said one of the primary fears is that crime will increase. He pointed to the Colfax collective as a model of what can work. “I think the fear comes irrationally from a lack of education,” Dearwester said. “Once people educate themselves and they see it’s a compassionate issue and not a drug issue, they usually come around to it.”
Law enforcement’s perspective Troy Minton-Sander, Placer Sheriff’s Colfax substation sergeant, said since the Colfax collective’s 2004 opening, there have been no crimes or arrests related to the shop. He said deputies maintain a business relationship with the collective just as they would with any other. “We contract with the city of Colfax and it’s their decision as to what kind of business they operate in the community,” Minton Sander said. He added that there are no separate statistics for marijuana-related crimes in the area. Auburn Police Chief Valerie Harris also said statistics are difficult to separate and compare. Marijuana use can become a public safety issue, she added. “The fact that you can use it doesn’t mean you can violate the law by driving impaired,” Harris said. “That’s where it becomes a public safety issue.”
Where does each city stand? The cities of Auburn, Roseville, Rocklin and Lincoln all have zoning ordinances that prohibit a medical marijuana dispensary as a storefront operation. Harris said Auburn’s zoning ordinance does not allow for an operation that conflicts with or potentially violates federal or state law. Since federal law declares medical cannabis illegal, she said the city does not allow for a commercial store to sell it. Roseville has a similar ordinance. Recently, several hopeful applicants have called the city inquiring whether that ordinance was going to change given the current federal department of justice’s indication that they will not prosecute medical marijuana facilities as aggressively as before, according to Dee Dee Gunther, Roseville City Police spokeswoman. Gunther said there are no plans to amend the ordinance since the law hasn’t actually changed. She said those with medical recommendations from doctors allowing them to grow plants for their own use is different from setting up a pharmacy-type business and selling it. “I think the main concern is it conflicts with federal law,” Gunther said.
Potential tax revenue? Last month, the City of Oakland’s voters approved a measure allowing the city to levy a higher tax on cannabis sales. The city believes it will generate more than $290,000 in revenue from the measure next year. However, some local city officials said the idea of more revenue was not worth the cost of potential problems. Peter Hill, Rocklin’s mayor, said the city’s chief of police presented council members with a report detailing crime experienced in other cities that welcome medical cannabis dispensaries. “I don’t think the council would trade off bringing in more crime into the community,” Hill said. “It’s not worth the little tax money. We’re more interested in having a safe community than we are getting a few dollars off marijuana sales.” Lincoln mayor Spencer Short added that his city also has a zoning ordinance not allowing medical marijuana dispensaries. He said it simply comes down to the city wanting to follow federal law. “Some cities are saying they don’t want the crime,” Short said. “We’re just saying until this issue is sorted out, we’re not going to weigh in.” Jenifer Gee can be reached at jeniferg@goldcountrymedia.com.
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What crime is truly associated directly with medical marijuana sales?
Its a scam. It has nothing to do with medicine. These guys have doctors who will write you prescription for $$$$ and you have to keep going back to get it renewed. They then sell you dope for $$$.
This was sold as a cure for nausea caused by chemo treatments, but if you have a toothache, they have a "doctor" that will write you a scrip as long as you pay them. Note the "peace" sign. This is not a medical facility or pharmacy, its a stoner distribution system.
Greg: There is no crime associated with it. The article says that the police department works with the shops.
I don't know why we need an article on marijuana every week. Why doesn't the Auburn Journal leave these people alone? The people of California voted the medical bill in... so let it go.
Birch,
Between alcohol and marijuana, in your opinion, which of these socially accepted drugs causes more pain, suffering, and financial loss?
Which is sold from storefronts accessible to minors along with junk food, tobacco, and pornography?
Alcohol is the elephant in the room. Marijuana is the redheaded step-child that gets all the blame!
YS...are you talking about our private doctors or the animal vets?
Its a scam. It has nothing to do with medicine. These guys have doctors who will write you prescription for $$$$ and you have to keep going back to get it renewed. They then sell you dope for $$$.
Well stated gregcalac...its way up the chain why marijuana isn't legalized....it would put a dent in the alcohol industry and they have powerful connections at the fed level....
Greg: Alcohol is much more destructive. Don't get me wrong... I'm not for getting high at all, for myself anyways, but alcohol is worse. Did you know that alcohol is the only drug that can kill you in a detox? It's true. With heroin and cocaine you think you're going to die and maybe you pray for death... but death never comes. Unless you already have some sort of complication. Alcohol alone can kill. As far as overdose... alcohol, heroin, cocaine, and benzodiazepenes can kill. Pot, meth, acid, mushrooms, etc. can not. Meth just turns people into instant scumbags.
I'm not endorsing drug use here but between pot and alcohol... alcohol is far more dangerous. Ask anyone who works as a doctor or in a rehab.
Y_S, I think you might want to try it for whatever it is that is wrong with you.
Greg... couldn't agree more with you. And many legitimate studies, as well as history, show that you are right.
As a resident in Colfax, I can assure you that this city is certainly not the ideal place to live. I speak from a perspective of a working class family who has small children. If you prefer stoners wandering in a semi-concious stuper all over town, by all means...please buy my house so we can have a ticket out of here. This is not the place to model your city after. One other point, maybe the Sherrif hasn't had any crimes related to the STORE (burglary, fights, vandalism) but I can assure you that most crime around here is committed by 'people' (and I use that term loosely) who are under some kind of influence. An honest candid, anonymous, discussion with the local sherrif would prove this to be true. One silver lining though, although noone I know or choose to spend time with does drugs, atleast the people who do marijuana will most likely move on to harder drugs and kill themselves out.- just to leave on a positive note.
nicole: You're thinking of "tweekers". Meth users. People who smoke pot are not likely to be trouble. Also... "stoners" are not likely to use hard drugs.
nicole "An honest candid, anonymous, discussion with the local sherrif would prove this to be true."
The sheriff had his chance to speak out and chose to tell the truth. Why can't you accept that?
As Chief Harris pointed out driving under the influence is a "public safety issue". I agree with her.
So don't let the door hit you in the butt as you exit Northern California. Try Salt Lake City.
You guys are always bitchin' the feds getting all over your freedoms and yet you really don't care.
I for one, am against legalized drugs, including marijuana. If Bob dearwester, owner of Bob's Dogs wants to support it or eventually open his own cooperative, then I will refuse to support his legitimate business, Bob's Dogs.
BirchBircker, meth does kill people.
We all appear :) to be addicted to something now aren't we.....food, TV, sex, twinkies, pain medications, iphones. ipods, computers, pets, sports etc. and on and on and on...just pick your poison and grasp it with both hands...that is exactly what they want you to do.....
No crime associated with medical marijuana? I disagree. In fact, although the people using medical marijuana for "medical purposes" may not be hardened criminals committing brazen crime...there is indeed crime associated with the production of medical marijuana. Every year, those persons who grow the weed by virtue of Prop 215 are targeted by predators looking to make a huge profit by stealing the marijuana and selling it on the street. In many cases, the thefts involve sophisticated raids by violent people armed with firearms. Last year's growing season saw a spike statewide in the number of these invasion style robberies and several people were shot. This year will likely see the same type of events and will stress a resource-challenged law enforcement community. Although prop 215 may have made it legal for Californians to grow thier own medical pot, it hasn't lessened the huge volume of black market marijuana sales. If you plant vegetables in a rural area, you can expect critters will try and eat your food. If you plant marijuana you can certainly expect a more violent type of predator.
Y_S,
You just got owned by Jayber.
If it's truly meication, shouldn't it only be dispensed by a licensed pharmacist? Why not open vicodin stores? Why can't you just get it from a pharmacy instead of a doper shop? Because it's not medicine. It's dope. Quit pretending and just be honest and admit you like to smoke your weed.
You have all been scammed since the beginning...if you grow it you own it...its your property. I for one am getting pretty tired of the government telling what I can or can't do...or what needs a prescription or doesn't or where I can buy my drugs and can't etc etc. and I do not even smoke this stuff...always made me paranoid and that was 40 years ago.....let all seek "Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_happiness
Hey....all these posts about marijuana are.....wait.....what were we talking about again?
Anyone who has done any research on the USA's marijuana prohibition would know that it was prescribed by doctors in this country for a variety of illnesses until the feds prohibited it in 1937 with the marijuana tax act. Here is a nice link out of the many historical sites:
http://www.whitman.edu/biology/Stuproj/YoungB/history.html
The problem in the Foothills is that we harbor a lot of derelict asphalt truck drivers and their offspring raised on poisoned well water from mining breeding methamphetamine usage and crime.
Marijuana is for losers.
Well then...I guess Bill and then GW and now Barrack are all losers... just like the 30 million college kids attending college are.... right now?
None of you know the history of Walt Disney...wake up! bahhahhahha
Schrodscat,
I agree there is crime associated with production and distribution of marijuana, but that's primarily because it is illegal.
During the years alcohol was prohibited, the gangsters made a fortune due to its illegality. The same now goes for pot!
I don't smoke it, but I consider Marijuana to be less harmful than alcohol, yet, it's still illegal for the most part, and there's no good reason for that.
If alcohol can be used by anyone over the age of 21, and it's up to the individual to use good judgment when using it, then why not fully legalize pot?
Birch, I knew how you would respond to my rhetorical question, but I did want to give you the opportunity to get in your piece. Thanks.
nicole,
Don't listen to them. You needn't leave Colfax, or for that matter, the state. I suggest you are being naive if you think there aren't already stoners wandering around in every town Placer County.
I've known a lot of pot smokers in my life and I don't know ONE who has gone on to harder drugs. I know a lot of people who are hurting that go on to alcohol, and that pretty much wrecks their life, but, unless that's the "harder drug" you are speaking about, it just doesn't happen on a large scale.
Colfax has had their drunks and pot smokers for a long time before this medical marijuana coop sprung up. If you don't realize that then you are truly naive. Sorry to sound like I'm personally insulting you, but I don't know any other way to say it.
I guess Steve Jobs must be a loser too! take your Mac and your iPod and your iPhone and throw them in the trash right now....
http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/characters_drug_use.shtml
Drugs must only be for the rich then....and Michael Jackson surely did not use drugs? Its all about the control of your money...nothing more and nothing less.
My grandfather was raised in a time before the marijuana prohibition. He told me that until drugs were made illegal they never had a drug problem. For the most part people didn't use recreational drugs because they felt it was stupid. He always felt that pot should have been legalized even though he had never in his life used it. From my perspective the entire problem solution should be elevated over the rhetoric and anecdotal that all of the political decisions are made on. They need to study it a completely non-biased scientific fashion and see where those studies take the discussion. The current state of the situation is an ad hoc attempt to address a political problem that has nothing to do with science or medicine. If people are able to game the system its because the government hasn't allowed enough comprehensive research so that guidelines can be created. We know for a fact that at least some of those people are sick and only use it for its therapeutic value and if it helps sick people feel better we would need to be pretty low to deny it for them.
I put it in the same category with gun control the users are criminals only when it is illegal. Contrary to popular opinion it isn't the first gateway drug either, beer is. I don't advocate the use of recreational drugs including alcohol but if its not proven to be a significant threat to society the government should stay the heck out of peoples business.
auburnative: A person can not overdose on meth. Nor do they suffer any withdrawal when they detox. Alcohol, Heroin, Cocaine, and Benzodiazepenes cause withdrawl... meth does not. People die on meth because they do something stupid... not because the meth kills them. You can not OD on meth. Ask someone , like me, who knows about this sort of thing. Meth turns people into scumbags but they can not suffer detox (it's all mental - no physical addiction) and they will not die directly from the meth unless they already have a preexisting condition. It is then the preexisting condition that causes the death and aggravated by the meth.
Here's my personal opinion of meth: It's terrible and can cause an otherwise normal person into a lying, manipulating, sexually deviant, criminal delinquent. It's garbage.
I heard that the war on pot in the 30's was perpetuated by William Randolph Hearst who owned lumber mills. The hemp trade was cutting in on his profits. Anyone else ever heard this?
Chuxx, You hit the nail on the head. The Feds should not be telling us we can’t smoke a plant if we would like too. I don’t care what your ailment is. It’s your life and your body.
Patrick,
You feelin OK? I think we agree on something :)
Nicloe: Greg is right about Colfax, I know, I grew up here. And have also lived in a lot of other places before coming back and people are people no matter where you go. Once while living in an "upper white trash" (our name for it) part of Southern Cal. we used to wonder what that certain smell was wafting by in the evenings until the SWAT team pulled up down the street and did a major meth lab bust in our "fancy" gated community. You just can't seem to escape it anywhere you live, so just try to be happy where you are.
No one has pointed out yet that there has been an explosion in the use of prescription, pharmaceutical mood enhancing drugs by the general public, because of advertising by the drug companies that has convinced so many that happiness comes in a bottle from the pharmacy. According to wikipedia, in 2005, 11% of women and 5% of men in this country take anti depressants. According to another source, the US Center for Disease Control, 118 million scripts were written for antidepressants in 2005, making them the #1 prescribed drug in the United States, followed by scripts for high blood pressure.
From a 1998 story, comparing American and European prices, with Americans paying 1.7 to 2.9 times as much for the same drugs, it said the average retail cost of Prozac was $72 a month. That was eleven years ago.
Let's pretend that each anti depressant script only cost a hundred bucks, at 118 million prescriptions a year, that's 11 billion dollars, retail.
11 Billion Dollars.
And we're worried about pot being legal ?
The Pharma industry is worried about losing market share, is what this is about, that and the prison industry.
Some folks can use alcohol or mary jane recreationally. Some folks can't. The problems are related to the folks that can't. DUI's from alcohol or mary jane, Theft to support habits. Both drugs do have a dumbing down effect if used excessively. Making mary jane legal would reduce its price and get rid of the criminals profits. It would also better direct law enforcement to concentrate on underage usage.
Obewan, ok, Obama was a loser, but he cleaned up his act. Clinton...not so much! lol.
Marijuana is for losers....still.
gregcalac, maybe you don't know the right type of stoner. Or maybe you don't know that they moved on to harder drugs because they are not telling you about their new meth addiction.
Realist...you must not have read the list...there would be no lights, computers, computer programs, disney land and some great music etc. etc. So not everyone is a loser...some are and some are not....even for those that drank or drink now...some were winners and many were losers.
Most sheep are just that and we have all been programed to accept or deny the existence of our created reality... made of laws written and created to control our behaviors. As a realist....I would have thought by now you would be emerging into the real world as your name implies...and not be so engulfed in the fake make believe world they have created for you.
Realist - I bet you won the prize when DARE came to your school! What is your anti=drug?
Realist,
The point is this; in my opinion alcohol and pot are equally bad when used by people who simply want to escape reality! It doesn't matter to me whether they're using a lot or a little, they're doing themself some type of harm.
Why would anyone be concerned about having a store that sells pot when there's a liquor store next door selling all the things that are terrible for a human to consume? And don't take the easy way out and simply say, "because alcohol is legal and pot isn't".
That's intellectual laziness!
Yahooligan,
I doubt Bob Dearwester will miss your business at "Bob's Dogs". He's gonna have so much new business from stoners coming in with the munchies he won't have time to wonder if ole Yahooligan had been by lately!
Please do yourself a favor and lighten up a little. ;-)
Jayber,
Pass the Pringles, would ya.
Canyonrat....nice research and only the tip of the iceberg...they are now legally growing poppies in England... thanks to our fooling around in Afghanistan and still the illegal opium is flowing into our country today in record numbers from this country we have a foot print in...how can that be. Could not get my dogs ear medicine from North Fork Vet today because my dog had not been seen in two years. My chocolate lab gets the same infection yearly but...I must now pay $50.00 to get a prescription....yea were not sheep stuck in a pen now are we......corruption everywhere created by laws that are filling pockets of the elite and which are based on written laws now moving worldwide to protect the interests and to supply the elite an un-lawful share of our money. We have some major problems coming down the pike.......... in the future. Now...I am a realist!
If we legalize Marijuana we continue to destroy the moral fiber of our community. Though i can appreciate that some of you can handle smoking marijuana. The fact is that many can not. If you think legalizing marijuana will be the the fix for everytrhing you are very wrong. It will be the start for numerous problems. Don't be short sighted look at the big picture and be honest with yourselves. The path that this leads us to is not paved in gold.
Imagine how much tax money could be saved if our police, DA, Judges, Probation Officers, Public Defenders, and Prison Guards weren't involved with marijuana growers and distributors?
Just wondering?
Look at you, Greg... playing devi's advocate. Tsk, tsk, tsk...
henrybomb...are you kidding me? Have you turned on the TV lately? Have you ever watched HBO or Showtime? Have you ever gone to an R rated or any violent drug movie? What country do you live in? Oh I see it is better to have 30 million young people sneaking around and lying about their taking drugs and smoking pot. It is best if they sneak around and go into the bushes behind the school and then pretend they are good law abiding people as the law might be just around the corner to catch them.....to help fill up your prisons that you and I help pay for.
Yea this is a great way to raise a generation of young people.....lie to them and feed them drugs while those behind the scenes profit....get a clue will you.
HB
Prohibition didn't rid Americans of alcohol problems but it certainly spawned an industry of organized crime and a huge underground economy. Prop 215 created a bizarre world of the in-between: it is legal to grow it in California, but not legal enough to ruin the organized cartels that are growing and selling their cash crop in our hills right now. All prop 215 accomplished was allowing people to grow their "medicine," creating new targets of opportunity for the predators who want to make a quick buck. I don't condone it's use, but enough is enough...either make it completely illegal or completely legal and let the potheads smoke away their gray matter.
greg - what are you implying? But after I figured out what you meant, i did laugg. For the record, i have never tried it and wouldn't know how to start. but i'm the only person i know who hasn't. well, except for my husband and my dad....
that should be laugh, not laugg.
Jayber,
I am not so sure about your dad. He had a big grin on his face when he told my brother and I about how it used to grow in the wheat fields. I kinda wonder if he might have tried just a little.
JP - Are you kidding me? Who planted it? If it was there, you might be right. His stories about hammers and skunks leads me to believe that he sometimes did impulsive things. oh my. Though I always got the impression growing up that it was something to be very afraid of.
Jayber,
If you've never smoked pot don't start now!
In 1965 my family was living in Laguna Beach, CA. The hippies were everywhere in that town, and pot was very easy to find. I smoked my share but I never became a devoted pot head because it always made me feel sleepy. I was in too much of a hurry to have fun to be feeling sleepy!
Now-a-days I agree with Birch. I wish no one felt the need to alter their reality with drugs, especially alcohol. The irony of alcohol is the fact that it's a depressant and people use it to try to make themselves feel happy and carefree. That's the hook! You do feel that way at first before the depression sets in. Once you realize you're in the quicksand, often, it's too late!
Pot, alcohol, they're the same thing as far as I'm concerned........... I just wish they were treated that way!
Jayber,
It grows like a weed in some areas (we found a lot growing in Hungarian corn fields). Even if he did try it, I would bet it was several orders of magnitude less potent than the engineered stuff you would find at cannabis dispensaries.
Both booze and pot, if taken in moderation are fine. The problem is with those that drink or smoke to get ripped. There are two issues here, medical marijuana and the legalization of marijuana.
If it's going to be used as a "medicine" then it should be dispensed from a registered pharmacy, if it is legalized it should be sold through the same channels that other taxed items such as cigarettes and alcohol. I don't see the problem of growing and selling by individuals bypassing the taxation going away so instead of the police chasing them it will the the equivalent of the "revenuers" chasing the moonshiners.
"It grows like a weed in some areas (we found a lot growing in Hungarian corn fields). Even if he did try it, I would bet it was several orders of magnitude less potent than the engineered stuff you would find at cannabis dispensaries"
In the midwest, hemp does grow wild, I used to see it growing all over the place and used to be harvested to make rope, but since all the illegal stuff was around, most has been eradicated, hemp is a good fiber plant.
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i think people against the use of marijuana,espescially LEGALLY just need to chill out and let people do what they want, I myself and a medical marijuana user, and guess what..it works!. no, i dont smoke to get "high" i smoke to relieve stress,eat,and sleep. Id prefer an approach that has minimal side-effects i.e. short term memory loss(only while using it) munchies,and tiredness, as opposed to taking other "drugs" like Paxil etc. id rather have my kidneys and liver when im 80. not only that. you dont even have to smoke it. you can just eat it in treats,other things like paxil,youre going to have withdrawls,suicidal tendencies in teens. etc. sooo. i like to take the high road. GG
oh, and no. its not just a business, you need proof of a probelm that has been proven to help with the use of medical marijuana. And it must be perscribed by an approved medical physician.
America, the land of utter hypocrisy. Just imagine how all of
the anti-pot people would react if the government decided to acknowledge
and be honest about their hypocritical laws and reinstate Prohibition and illegalize tobacco,
substances that have been actually proven to kill people and ruin lives and families, legal and
widely accepted as 'normal' and as American as apple pie.
Wouldn't this be just the perfect shiny happy nation if we did that?
Drug gangs from Mexico use our National Forests and vacant Foreclosed Homes to grow pot. You really need to accept this fact. Ask ANY law officer and they'll tell you the complete story. Ask anyone who dirt bikes through the sierras, too. This problem is out of control. Mexican drug gangs using MY COUNTRY to grow drugs to sell to my fellow Americans so they can send their untaxed profits BACK to Mexico to fund other criminal operations/terrorism. I support the "co-ops" just to put these jerks out of business. Nobody is more against medical marijuana than these Mexican drug cartels. I do not, however, support dispensaries. A co-op is where sick people can contribute to a "club" to help each other - there is no one to profit. I would support this here in Loomis and I plan on voicing that very clearly at the meetings. Some of these arguments are just plain wrong - I too was against all of it until my father-in-law died of cancer. I don't think it's fair to allow every strip-mall to have a Pharmacy yet to deny the "other side" a chance to compete. That is not free-market capitalism.
Half of the people in Colfax, including every surrounding town, are growing dope. My neighbor is growing, family members are growing, people at work, jeez I wouldn't doubt if the preacher is growing it. These people are freaking out that it might actually be legalized, they might have to get a job!! From what I've seen around here, the only people that want pot houses are the people that are afraid they might have to drive farther to sell their green payday. People that really need it, either medicinally or just because they're stoners, are going to grow it anyways. Any dirtbag with a fake scrip growing and selling it just to make a dime can kiss my dirty hardworking cheeks. Whats that number for the doc again??....seriously...