In November, voters in Morro Bay will weigh in on one of the city’s most contentious issues: whether medical marijuana dispensaries will be allowed. Opponents of the dispensaries gathered enough signatures to put the measure on the Nov. 2 ballot, David Sneed reports in the San Luis Obispo Tribune. Medical marijuana is allowed under Proposition 215, which California voters approved in 1996. But many communities have been banning dispensaries. The wording of the Morro Bay measure categorically prohibits them. “Medical marijuana dispensaries are prohibited in all zoning districts within the City of Morro Bay,” it [...]
One of the most compelling cases pitting California’s medical marijuana law vs. federal authority to prosecute medicinal pot unfolded in the coastal town of Morro Bay. There, Charles Lynch opened a marijuana dispensary called Central Coast Compassionate Caregivers in early 2006. The mayor, City Council members and officials from the local chamber of commerce came out for the ribbon-cutting. But in 2007, at the behest of the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department, federal drug agents raided the dispensary. Lynch was arrested on five felony counts, including conspiracy to distribute marijuana and providing marijuana to [...]
I am deeply concerned that a few bigoted demagogues want to seize control of the city of Morro Bay and prevent a medical cannabis dispensary from opening here, Ali Jordan-Brown writes in a letter to the New Times SLO (San Luis Obispo) editor. I spoke at the city council meeting on March 8 in support of the dispensary. Each city council member spoke in support of this dispensary at that meeting, except Carla Borchard, who declared war at the meeting of the Morro Bay Merchants association meeting two days later. Since then, Rick Grantham has [...]
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