[kgbud1]

Check it out. Here are two articles from the last few days.

Council committee votes to regulate medical pot - Press-Telegram

Medical marijuana, equal benefits fill L.B. Council committee's plate - Press-Telegram

Kgbud1

[bushka]

Yet you have convenience stores that sell alcohol & tobacco and junk food right down the street from our kids. When ever I needed something yes I was bad kid I would bribe the local wino, drunk or anyone inside the store to hook me up LOL !

Now in a dispensary kids are not able enter at all. Kids being kids will get it elsewhere.

If your so worried about the characters that visit these places you should really be concerned at the ones that enter the convenience stores because you got kids interacting inside with them.

[ps-med]

Sounds like a good thing to me. Long beach will finally get in line with California law and specifically regulate and ALLOW co-ops to exist. This will probably piss off many of the current operators since the number will go from 80 to 9, but that means 9 legal fully-compliant (and in theory raid free) co-ops. Hopefully more cities will follow this example and choose to follow the law and let patients get their medication.

This is just the beginning of state wide regulation.

[Smilodon]

Nine is definitely restrictive, but that is probably a trade off for allowing simple permitting in non-residential areas. It looks as though we will not have the number limit on coops in SD, but more strict conditional use than LB.

[love2smokedank]

LONG BEACH - Medical marijuana collectives and cooperatives in Long Beach could soon face strict regulations - including where they can open and how many can operate - under a proposal approved Monday.

The City Council's three-member Economic Development and Finance Committee - composed of council members Rae Gabelich, Tonia Reyes Uranga and Gary DeLong - voted unanimously to have the city attorney and city prosecutor work together to create a regulatory ordinance. The new regulations are to be returned to the committee on Nov. 9 and then sent to the full council for approval.

The committee expressed a sense of urgency in regulating what legally should be non-profit collectives but that many public officials fear are becoming illegal businesses. The number of medical marijuana facilities has exploded in recent months, with more than 40 estimated in Long Beach and more than 800 in Los Angeles.

"The longer we wait, the more we have to deal with," Uranga said.

The ordinance would be based on rules that Gabelich proposed Tuesday, though medical marijuana patients and collective operators told the committee they opposed some of the restrictions.

Gabelich's recommended rules include restricting the number of cooperatives and collectives to nine in all of Long Beach; prohibiting them from operating in a residential zone and within 1,000 feet of any school, public library, licensed child care facility or other medical marijuana facilities;







and restrictions on signage and advertising, operating hours, and marijuana use on site.
Medical marijuana proponents said they were concerned about restricting the location, hours and number of facilities because the sites need to be accessible to patients. Some were against prohibiting advertising outside the facilities as well because, they said, patients need to know where to find medical marijuana.

However, two residents who live near Long Beach City College said, as other speakers did at last month's committee meeting, that the proliferation of marijuana dispensaries has created problems in the neighborhoods where they are located.

Equal benefits ordinance

Also Monday, the committee forwarded to the full council a recommendation to implement an equal benefits ordinance, which would require city contractors that provide benefits to employees' spouses to do the same for domestic partners.

The law was spurred by Councilman Robert Garcia largely to give equal benefits to gay couples.

After questions arose about how the ordinance would be enacted at last month's committee meeting, city staff outlined their proposal, which the committee supported.

In the first year of the program, businesses that have contracts of more than $100,000 with the city would have to provide equal benefits. After the first year, the threshold would drop to $25,000, though city officials would re-evaluate whether that is the appropriate amount.

The law would apply to businesses that lease city property if they produce more than $350,000 in annual revenue for the city. Lease-holders would be affected only when they have new or renewed leases.

Director of Community Development Dennis Thys reported that 87 organizations with city leases might eventually be impacted. However, he said he didn't know what the ultimate financial impact of implementing the ordinance would be as companies that bid on city contracts adjust to the ordinance.

[kgbud1]

Originally Posted by Smilodon

Nine is definitely restrictive, but that is probably a trade off for allowing simple permitting in non-residential areas. It looks as though we will not have the number limit on coops in SD, but more strict conditional use than LB.

I agree but 9 is better than 0.

Kgbud1

[Smilodon]

Originally Posted by kgbud1

I agree but 9 is better than 0.

Kgbud1

lmao, when you put it that way I like 9 a whole lot.

[Masonic Chronic]

I can already see where they will run into trouble with this. How will they determine what co-ops can close and which can stay open? They would have to come up with a reasonable explanation for targeting certain shops to close. I wouldn't be surprised if they set the standard at the amount that already exists. THis would just keep more from opening up. Also.. a limit on patients might also apply to that rule which is already happening at co-ops all over long beach who are having trouble providing their patients

[EarthMama]

It's a step in the right direction...I'm glad...Not too happy about some of the regulations, but it's a start...I hope Positive Vibrations Collective stays open...I've got to get there!
I checked out how many co-ops were in Long Beach, and if I'm not mistaken, it's over 40! It's a crying shame that so many will have to close. I'm sad about that. :-(

[docdoom420]

Originally Posted by kgbud1

I agree but 9 is better than 0.

Kgbud1

now its time to see who's playing by the rules and not jerking the patients.....

[bushka]

wow 9 and a few places have been opening up in the last month or so bad timing to open up in the LB