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Neighbor appeals third retail pot shop in San Luis Obispo

January 23, 2025

By KAREN VELIE

Even though the San Luis Obispo City Council voted in 2017 to approve three retail cannabis shops, there have been only two.

In September, the Planning Commission voted to approve a third proposed pot shop, this one located at the corner of Broad and Woodbridge streets. However, a neighbor filed an appeal that identified several alleged issues with the proposed Embarc SLO store.

Jeffrey Pyle appealed the shop because of its proximity to housing and a bike path utilized by children, according to the appeal. Pyle also voiced concerns over having a security guard standing outside.

However, Embarc SLO plans to have an inside waiting room where the security guard would be stationed.

The Embarc SLO applicant was unable to attend the SLO City Council meeting on Tuesday because of a medical issue. City staff plans to reschedule the appeal hearing during the summer.

 


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The fourth and fifth pot shops will be way better.

Somebody keep those kids off the bike path.


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US should have the same pot laws as Singapore


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As long as this ridiculous prohibition against cannabis continues, there will be a black market. High taxes, high costs and a military camp approach to cannabis shops is killing the market. In Oregon buying cannabis is like walking into a 7-11 to buy your product. Locals who have no problem with liquor stores in their neighborhoods become hysterical at the thought of a cannabis store close to them. It is time to deregulate the market and lower taxes but keep ensuring the purity of the product.


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So you can’t buy a vape in California as of January 2025, and SLO wanted to be a leader on that front. But when I comes to getting high, smoking pot, and the consumption of THC they are supporters of this insanity. There’s a disconnect somewhere, can’t anyone see a problem here? The vaping I’m assuming was fought against due to the children who were vaping, but still where not allowed to purchase in the stores. Somehow they were getting it anyway. Now you have Pot, which isn’t allowed to be purchased by children in the “pot shops” and do you think that’s going to stop them from getting the pot? SLO was better off with the vape shops than the pot shops! Or neither!


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Correct. Better off with neither.


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Pot stores generally diminish the neighborhood. Let’s be honest, drug addicts go there and buy their drugs. The criminal element is always close by, the pot culture is dark and brings nothing good. Yes it’s legal and it’s a free country, but that freedom should stop when the activity threatens future generations.


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OMG, they can see a security guard! What does that have to do with anything going on inside your home? Mind your business. It’s a business. If you don’t want inside, don’t go. Depriving people of living heir lives is so ridiculous.


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“Unable to able to attend”? No other business partners or representatives could attend? Sounds like pure Adam Hill/Heidi Harmon/SLO City staff corruption.


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Ditto. Pot shops constantly claim to carry strains to ease “medical” ailments. Stupid stoners, unfamiliar with their own products…


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I’m sure you’re right…what else could it possibly be?


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So, you read a sentences and you’ve already forensically bisected the business owners business. What color of hat do you wear?


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Well that’s an awfully big leap from an ill sole proprietor to corruption…


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We USED to say that about Dayspring…


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Well, they must ALL be corrupt knowing there’s a prison sentence waiting


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