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Pot shop approval budding?

November 4, 2011

San Luis Obispo County planning officials Thursday approved an application to open a medical marijuana collective in Oceano, but more authoritative opposition may be firing up.

The 4-1 vote marked the second time the Planning Commission has approved such a facility. Last year, a planned store in Templeton got the nod. But a pair of appeals were subsequently upheld by the Board of Supervisors, which has extinguished three such proposals in the past five years.

Tammy Murray argued for her Compassionate Cannabis Information Center, but Commissioner Tim Murphy, who represents the area in question, cast the lone opposing vote after raising the usual issues of location and federal prohibition.

Sheriff’s officials echoed those concerns, contending that an expensive increase in patrol capability would be needed.

If a medical pot facility should eventually be approved, it would be the first in SLO County since 2007. That was when local sheriff’s deputies and a bevy of federal officers raided Charles C. Lynch’s Morro Bay facility and arrested him. Lynch was later convicted in federal court and sentenced to a year in prison.


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There will be no dispensary. The Great Leader in D.C. has spoken. I dare SLO County question the policies of The Great Leader. Great Leader operatives (DEA, IRS, FBI, ICE, ATF) will deal with these detractors. California can make all the policy it desires, but remember, The Great Leader will ultimately decide what’s best for residents of the “Golden State”. More later on Great Leader media. Viewing is mandatory, so remember, don’t disappoint The Great Leader.


Change you better believe in, or ELSE


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We will not be assimilated. We will insure our liberty and once again have a great leader FOR the people. Not that what we vote on makes much difference heh? I thought we voted it legal 15 years ago!


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Can’t I please just get high in the privacy of my own property? Just treat it like booze: age limits, no operating motorized anything (including scooters, gramps!).


I’m not so much for medical marijuana as I am for legalizing dope to get high. Period. Put penalties in place for fools, like with any other substance, and off we go! We could have pot-bars with a designated hippy… er, driver, etc. (the person preventing us from devouring a large pizza covered in doritos, etc)


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Never work. Think of all the government employees who currently are trying to enforce drug laws. They would all be out of work :–((


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So, let’s limit them to 35 cars a day so only the partially sick can get off their couch and make it before the really sick miss out. Last time I checked, Walgreens doesn’t shut their door once 35 customers buy oxycotin. That limitation makes no sense whatsoever. All it does is increase the cost of overhead making the medicine more expensive. Oh but wait! I just read The famous quote from the NTF’s own Rodney John, “You can harvest it, process it, but you can’t sell it”. Huh? The state makes one obtain a seller’s permit from their website on medical marijuana but a state employee says different. What gives? The feds are being sued to stay the f out of California from ASA. Congressmen and other state reps are screaming at Osama (whoops I mean Obama) to leave Cali alone in regard to mmj. Thank God I am not in this mess.


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Exactly right on stand up,


“Sheriff’s officials echoed those concerns, contending that an expensive increase in patrol capability would be needed.”


Like for what, patrol around the pot holes in the pavement in this county, for tweakers and rapists, people who choose to sedate themselves from pain with cannabis now have that choice, it is their choice, this county needs to wake up and get with the state program.


Although I would not recommend it’s recreational uses, it does help a lot of people go through chemo, keeping , well some of their lunch down,.


Queen Elizabeth was known to use cannabis to relieve pain during her menstruation periods.


If doctors also didn’t hand out cards for a headache, the whole thing would seem much more creditable to any government agency.


THC also destroys cancer cells, but big business and government deny it’s properties of use for $.


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I don’t know if you’ve ever driven through Oceano, but let’s just say that cars are not fighting for driving or parking spaces. Most of the time, I expect tumbleweeds to come rolling down the street, like in the old westerns.


That 35 cars thing is just a BS attempt to exert power and control over the business.


Can you imagine them limiting ANY other new business in Oceano to 35 cars a day?


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What happens to the money that is confiscated during drug raids in California? Understanding it goes into evidence, but what ultimately happens to it?


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You need to watch “training day” and “bad lieutenant”, well made movies that touch on the subject.


In this county, hopefully nothing like this ever happens but, probably it’s better not to talk it either.


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Isn’t amazing that this very similar proposal was sought in Templeton with a freeway(hwy 101) between them and a school or park and was shot down by the same planning commission. They did not give them an exemption. Further this is a partial residential neighborhood with apartments with children living in close proximity. The rule is 1000 feet as the crow flies. Not 922 with exemptions. If you can’t follow the rules, you should not be allowed to open.

The federal government is already upset with California not following their own rules and are stepping in. Why add another reason for them to be upset?

Further, no traffic studies were done. The guy in Morro Bay supposedly did around $1,000,000 in sales. That is about 1300 to 1500 more cars per month in a spot with only 3 parking spaces.

Why would the planning commission do this? Whats in it for them? Why would a county let some break the rules and others not?

While I believe that everyone has a right to live there lives, and should have the right to get their “medicine” , we have rules to follow. This area is not the place for this particular business to be setting up. Find an industrial area.


Read more: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/11/03/1821729/medical-marijuana-oceano.html#disqus_thread#ixzz1cmFUxWxE


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The added expense for increased patrolling could easly be made up with an added tax the shop. Even without an added tax just with the current taxes generated their would be more than enough to make up for that cost.


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More drugs, just what Oceano needs.


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I doubt there will be more drugs. The weed that will be purchased in Oceano by people with medical issues will be able to be purchased in a shop, from a reliable source, and what they buy will be predictably what works best for them.


In my experience, of the Vietnam vets who have PTSD, the vast majority use weed to help control it. It seems to either limit the PTSD flare up or prevents the click that sets it off.


Not all drugs impact people the same way, and I don’t, by any means, consider weed the magical cure-all for what ails ya’. It’s just another drug that helps many people with a wide variety of issues.


The very best thing about having controlled sales of weed is that the buyer doesn’t have to take the inherent risks involved with buying a controlled substance illegally. The sellers often are worthless trash, commit more crimes than just selling drugs, and often will expose their weed client to worse, addictive drugs, with tragic results.


My first husband was a Vietnam vet, and had severe PTSD, which nothing helped completely, although he was far less violent and less reactive when he smoked pot. He was doing marginally okay, until the guy who sold him weed asked him to “share a couple lines” of cocaine with him. I think my first husband was one of those people who immediately got addicted to cocaine. We split up, I had to get a restraining order to protect my daughter and I from his violent paranoid episodes, and the last I heard about him was 12 years after our divorce. A friend of his contacted me (he recognized my name from a political website I ran), and told me my ex had died, alone, in a San Diego hospital 10 years previously.


I can’t describe how hard it was to tell my daughter.


I curse the day Obama was born. He refused to prosecute Bush and Cheney for torture, but overrides states’ rights for a cheap, but very, very harmful, 2012 election tactic…which will cause so much heartache and pain to the people who depend on weed to deal with medical issues.


Here’s a website of first-person articles about personal experiences with weed aleviating medical issues: http://rxmarijuana.com/shared.htm


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I have a sibling that was also in Vietnam and also has PTSD. It’s easier for him to get prescribed narcotics and alcohol than it is for him to get pot. With the recent studies that show that more people than ever are dying from prescribed narcotics you would think that they would welcome these shops with open arms. But that won’t happen because the corp pharmas love that people are dying from their product, that means that business is good, it doesn’t matter if a few die here and there, as long as pot is illegal there will be plenty of customers waiting for their legal drugs.


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It’s a non-issue except for LE and fearophobes. Alas, she will most likely get shot down by the spineless BOS.


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“Sheriff’s officials echoed those concerns, contending that an expensive increase in patrol capability would be needed.” This is a real opportunity for Sheriff Parkinson to really show how different he is from Pat Hedges; the Sheriff’s Department is NOT an arm of the federal government and as such their main concern is to be in compliance with and to enforce CALIFORNIA STATE LAW. If the Sheriff Department is truly concerned about feeling the need for increased patrols for this facility, it would seem logically that being able to be in compliance with state law should dictate that the Sheriff’s Department will make it happen, somehow. If Sheriff Parkinson feels the need to trim in some other area to be able to afford to increase patrols in Oceano, perhaps this would be a great time for the Sheriff’s spokesperson, Rob Bryn to step down and take his retirement, I mean really, do we need a person who’s main job is that of a spokesperson? How about a lieutenant or captain take over the duties on an occasional basis? Or maybe Sheriff Parkinson himself could address the press when it is needed?


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Speaking in generalities, police tend to be control freaks. It is a job-acquired trait, and they come by it honestly in the line of duty. IMO, it’s chronic job-related PTSD.


Something like a controlled substance becoming a less-controlled substance would predictably make them fearful. It doesn’t have to be logical–it’s a reaction they have from having to deal with controlled situations that turn into uncontrolled situations, which often do not have a good outcome.


Logically, there is far more risk of violence occurring when noncriminals, who use weed for medical issues, are forced to buy it from criminals, often in a criminal environment..


For heaven’s sake, the county doesn’t have a problem with a casino operating in Oceano. A legal weed dispensary will be worse? I’d like to know the reasoning for that. At least there won’t be hookers hanging outside the pot dispensary.


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