Local Gov't says NO to dispensaries

http://www.petoskeynews.com/news/article_812a31c0-7953-11df-9f3d-001cc4c03286.html

my local paper with news that the local government, and their infinite wisdom, is going to outlaw dispensaries.

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We have 40 people that have a club in a different county that can attest that nothing illegal or any other than Legal Cannabis is being traded or services sold per Michigan Law and it would be great to have a club style meeting place in our county. I know club and dispensaries are not the same and I understand the legal difference but please place a comment anyway.

They call Cannabis the gateway drug, well this kind of bullshit law making is a gateway law which leads to harsher penalties on a Doctor recommended drug that has never been related to one death. I wont bring up alcohol or tobacco, we all know the results.

We just want to be able to operate in peace.

Im in Maine, local towns all around are trying to block dispensaries.....not enough though, 2 within a few miles of me shot down the bans they were considering.

I can't even understand, right on the last stretch before cali. legalizes it.

Peace

Its easy to see. Older generation has the Reefer Madness bullshit ideas about MMJ, bible thumpers and of course law enforcement all line up to oppose it.

Thankfully I live in a pretty sane state and most here are smarter than to buy into that bullshit.

Mr.KushMan said:

I can't even understand, right on the last stretch before cali. legalizes it.

Peace

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Just because something is legal, doesn't mean locals have to allow the sales. There are still dry (no alcohol sales allowed) counties in the USA even though the sale, possession, and use of alcohol is perfectly legal. It sucked having to drive 30 miles round trip to pick up a case of beer.

The real gateway drug would be alcohol.

Alcohlol will make ya do all kinds of stupid shit.

Mindmelted said:

The real gateway drug would be alcohol.

Alcohlol will make ya all kinds of stupid shit.

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NO SHIT! I'm an alcoholic (beer only) and tried to quit many times...But I was able to quit smoking tobacco with no problems.
Law makers will never see alcohol as a drug because they are all addicted to it themselves.

i gave up the booze, and alot of it, but i just cant quit smokin cigs, hate the fuckin things

I don't really drink anymore. Don't really not drink, either. But I used to drink a lot back in the day. I went to college in Berea, KY which was at the time, in a dry county. I loved it. Was really only 12 miles to get alcohol, but I really think it helped me prioritize my participation with alcohol. My family are mostly all naturalized US citizens from Italy, and before I went to school, I was exposed to a typical European attitude concerning alcohol and it was perfectly acceptable in my family circle to get loud, animated and drunk. Had it not been for my college commitment placing me in a dry county, it is likely that I would be suffering from a possible myriad of alcohol related illnesses, alcoholism itself notwithstanding.

I think that local governments excercising their right to not participate is absolutely beneficial to the movement to legalize marijuana. I think a local governments right to participate should be excercized every single time a broader scope of government passes a law that the people in a given area disagree with. Especially when that broader scope of government passes a law that restricts the smaller from disagreeing with it. I think there is something for everyone out there. The notion that we all have to agree is folly.