Comments on: Los Angeles City Council Votes to Ban Dispensaries

By: holeybuybull

holeybuybull — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:36:30 +0000

They probably received bribes from Big Pharma for their votes. The crime story is just a cover. The illegal sale and purchase of drugs is always more responsible for crime than whatever could be attributed to legal dispensaries.

By: Hannibal

Hannibal — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:34:49 +0000

The same LA City Council that voted to require condoms in all porn? Looks like LA is actually pretty prudish.

By: nonpartisanliberal

nonpartisanliberal — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:03:42 +0000

Well, remember this when these fools come up for re-election and make them pay.

By: bluewombat

bluewombat — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:03:10 +0000

As an LA resident, I can tell you that the LA City Council votes unanimously on just about everything. Not sure why, but there was more independent thinking in the Soviet Politburo.

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:00:57 +0000

Thanks.

As for #1, they could inspect the records.

As for #2, they could get rid of all stores in poor neighborhoods and then there’d be nothing to rob, so crime goes down.

(I’m particularly fond of the reductio ad absurdum method of argument.)

By: nik12

nik12 — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:57:17 +0000

There seem to be two general reasons from what I read and heard: (1) that the dispensaries can be hot spots for crime; and (2) that most dispensaries are engaged in the sale of recreational marijuana to healthy young adults.

Not sure whether reason (2) is that dispensaries are acting outside the law and selling to people without a prescription, or whether it is really just a criticism of the medical marijuana program generally (i.e., these people aren’t really sick), or some degree of both.

Also, from I understand, reason (1) here is similar to the lament of the ubiquity of liquor stores in low income neighborhoods. The argument is that dispensaries attract and breed unsavory behavior.

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:41:36 +0000

What does LACC have against mj dispensaries.

By: nik12

nik12 — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:32:22 +0000

Gotta love the Los Angeles City Council. With unemployment hovering around 12.2% currently in Los Angeles, they unanimously pass a measure that would likely put over 1,000 people out of work.