El Dorado rethinking medical pot dispensaries
By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee
With a moratorium on new medical marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated El Dorado County set to expire at the end of October, the county Planning Commission has called for an ordinance to allow and regulate the facilities.
The commission at its Aug. 22 meeting objected to a proposed ordinance amendment, initiated by the Board of Supervisors, that would ban all medical marijuana distribution facilities.
“After about four hours of listening and discussion, it was the commission’s directive to allow the existing collectives that are in place today,” said commission Chairman Dave Pratt. “In a second motion, we asked the board to give us a shot at coming up with rules for collectives.”
Pratt suggested it is time for the county to start viewing medical marijuana dispensaries as tax-paying enterprises that can provide jobs and contribute to the local economy.
Legalization and taxing marijuana would be a good step in the right direction in solving many of our financial problems we are facing in California.
I agree it should be legalized. But before we had the lottery in California, everybody said THAT would be the answer to our school funding problems.
That worked out well.
Maybe our government needs to learn some restraint, instead of looking for more money from us.
Can someone tell me where the dispensories are now? My friend just started chemo and needs help managing her pain. Thanks.
For someone who is sick there are pills available from their doctor which do not contain THC the psycho-active ingredient used to get “high.” There are plants available also from on-line sources which do not contain THC. The county should realize that violating federal law is a bad idea and criminal gangs control the distribution of illicit marijuana growing operations that end up at store front pot shops, many are run by felons and drug cartel gangs are also trying to take control of the illegal drug trade by the use of open borders to grow large crops of marijuana on public lands and they are also selling dangerous poison meth and cheap tar heroin from S. America which is killing people all over. Until a federal legalization effort is successful, it is against federal law to distribute THC containing marijuana in any form in all states.