It's official, LA City will be closing over 600 Medical Marijuana Dispensaries . The newly established limit will stand at 70 clubs, all of which must be at least 1,000 ft. from schools, churches, libraries, playgrounds and other 'sensitive' areas. This makes a ton of sense, in a city of nearly 4 million people spanning nearly 400 square miles, with notoriously bad public transportation.
Well at least there was no bill passed closing any of the thousands of liquor outlets (roughly 15,000 currently preside, not counting the 10,000 restaurants that also serve alcohol). According to a vastly more knowledgeable chronnoisseur than myself, however, this could be good for the marijuana movement. The president of Oaksterdam University, Richard Lee says: "The ordinance is good in some ways...Cannabis should be regulated and taxed, and will generate jobs and income like other commodities."
Be that as it may, hundreds of local businesses, providing medical marijuana for thousands of prescribed citizens, are being forced to close; which is nothing more than hasty and extreme. The one sure thing coming from this newly passed bill, LA has never been and will never be The Chronic!
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