How West Hollywood manages it’s pot…and what L.A. could learn

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Nov. 16, 2009

Even as the L.A. City Council is debating a host of new regulations and restrictions for medical marijuana dispensaries, there’s a small space of L.A. that seems to have already figured out how to coexist with medial pot. West Hollywood has clamped down on its dispensaries and all interested parties, from residents to the cops and pot activists, seem content. Can L.A. learn how to manage its pot from WeHo?

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Guests:

John Duran, West Hollywood City Councilman

Don Duncan, California Director at Americans for Safe Access (ASA) and owner/operator of a dispensary in West Hollywood

jody
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Keep it legal. What does qualify mean? many people drink wine after work or have a scotch, if someone needs to relax and slow their heart beat reduce stress, that should qualify. Hard days work , mellow relaxing evening with a bit of help... big deal. Stress is a killer, keep people free and have a choice in their own minds and bodies .Think if there were only 800 places to buy Tylenol or those $25 migraine pills (that's each pill folks)

Natalie
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Since marijuana was voted a legal drug for medical use, can't it be dispensed through licensed pharmacies like any other medical drug? Is it because it's only legal in the state and not federally? Treating it as any other medical drug and dispensing it only through licensed pharmacies would do away with the need for separate dispensaries and all this extra cost and bother.

Shira
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Legalize cannabis STATEWIDE for recreational purposes. Impose taxes on recreational sales in for-profit cannabis shops, but exempt medical patients and require medical dispensaries to remain nonprofit. The existing dispensaries will sort themselves out and you'll see which are the "pot shops" and which are the true "patient collectives." Growers should get tax breaks for providing high quality cannabis to medical dispensaries, so that they are not tempted to supply only to for-profit stores.

At the same time, make sure that people who are exempt from the cannabis tax are TRULY using it for medical purposes by cracking down on the "pot doctor" phenomenon that has allowed so many healthy young folks to obtain medical recommendations.

Once cannabis is legal for everybody, there can finally be an honest discussion about the true medical benefits of this plant without anybody accusing anybody of "just trying to get high."

Sharon McNary in the KPCC newsroom
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Please feel free to confidentially share your medical marijuana experiences with a journalist in the KPCC newsroom. Click on my name to link to a few questions. We'll use your insights to help guide our news coverage.

Thanks,

Sharon

M Cowan
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Don't forget: there are NO apostrophes in possessive pronouns of any kind, whether used as modifiers or substantives...period!
my - your - his - her - our - their ... mine - yours - his - hers - ours - theirs

--> its ... its !!!!! < --

IT'S = "it is" = a contraction, not a possessive pronoun...

So: 'How West Hollywood manages its pot...'

[not How W H manages it is pot...]

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