A local resident has applied to open a medical-marijuana collective near Nipomo that could also include some holistic health services and classes. If David Rosenthal’s application moves ahead successfully, it could become the second medical marijuana collective operating in San Luis Obispo County, Cynthia Lambert reports in The Tribune. The planning commission approved plans Nov. 3 for Tammy Murray of Oceano to open a collective, called Compassionate Cannabis Information Center, at 1409 S. Fourth St. So far, no one has appealed the Oceano project to the county Board of Supervisors. Today is the deadline to [...]
San Luis Obispo has turned to zoning code to keep medical marijuana dispensaries out of the city. Acting Community Development Director Doug Davidson rejected three applications for medical marijuana dispensary business licenses in July, citing zoning code incompatibility, not an emergency ordinance the city had created as a temporary ban on dispensaries. “The moratorium is not pertinent anymore,” Davidson told CalCoastNews, Josh Friedman reports. “It’s long expired. There is no moratorium.” The city had been using Ordinance No. 1466, adopted on November 16, 2004, to prohibit dispensaries in San Luis Obispo. It was an emergency [...]
A two-month investigation into mobile medical marijuana dispensaries in San Luis Obispo County started in October, when a San Luis Obispo police detective, working undercover, visited a local doctor and complained of back pain. According to search warrants, the detective received a recommendation for medical marijuana Oct. 8 from a San Luis Obispo physician — along with a list of medical marijuana delivery services available in the county. Eleven weeks later, on Dec. 27, 45 to 50 officers started serving the search warrants over three days at seven locations. Fifteen people were arrested on various [...]
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 [...]
A proposal for a medical marijuana clinic in Nipomo fell short Tuesday afternoon after a parade of local residents hammered it relentlessly, linking those who patronize or hang around such dispensaries to everything from murder to burglaries and saying they pose a threat to children. Applicant Robert Brody of Los Angeles found no support from anyone in the community or on the Board of Supervisors as he sought to open his clinic in an industrial park at 425-B N. Frontage Road. Supervisors voted 5-0 against the clinic, the San Luis Obispo Tribune reports, leaving the [...]
A proposal to create a medical marijuana dispensary in Nipomo will go to the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors for a vote Tuesday. Applicant Robert Brody appealed to the board after the Planning Commission turned him down on a 3-2 vote in May, the San Luis Obispo Tribune reports. Brody is seeking to open the business at 425-B N. Frontage Road. He said he would use only half of the 4,000-square-foot building for the dispensary. Marijuana for medical use is allowed under state law, but not federal law. San Luis Obispo County has [...]
Update: The would-be owner of a proposed medical marijuana clinic in Nipomo said Wednesday he will go forward with his plans despite the near unanimous opposition he faced at a community meeting Monday night. “It’s only a recommendation,” Robert Brody of Los Angeles said in this story from the San Luis Obispo Tribune. “We can go forward” with the proposal to the county Planning and Building Department. ================= Nipomo residents are organizing to fend off an attempt to open a medical marijuana dispensary a few blocks from the community’s swap meet, the Tribune of San [...]
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