DC Council rejects emergency legislation to restore the 300ft buffer between dispensaries and schools

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The proliferation of head shops overall are so unattractive. Yuck. Also, they should be required to have life size posters of young people who need to have lung transplants from vaping. Medical is what you'll need when you head down the recreational smoking anything road. I realize the medical dispensary is different from a head shop, but it also doesn't need to be near a school. It's bizarre how hard it is for a venue to get a liquor license or have a band play (god forbid we have a few extra decibals) but this is "fine". Idiots.

I can't believe people are trying to withhold vital medication from sick citizens. I thought we wanted healthcare for everyone. This is about healthcare.

Bullshit. It’s about addicts and stoners. If it were “medical” the FDA would regulate it and pharmacies (not sleazy “dispensaries”) would sell it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The proliferation of head shops overall are so unattractive. Yuck. Also, they should be required to have life size posters of young people who need to have lung transplants from vaping. Medical is what you'll need when you head down the recreational smoking anything road. I realize the medical dispensary is different from a head shop, but it also doesn't need to be near a school. It's bizarre how hard it is for a venue to get a liquor license or have a band play (god forbid we have a few extra decibals) but this is "fine". Idiots.

I can't believe people are trying to withhold vital medication from sick citizens. I thought we wanted healthcare for everyone. This is about healthcare.

Marijuana has the same medical benefits as vodka. Nothing more.

Marijuana is healthcare. Why do you insist on dogma from the 1980s?

https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/medical-marijuana-faq

And your ferret is your “emotional support animal.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:One big factor the ABCA board focused on throughout yesterday’s protest hearing is that the dispensary trying to open across from a school is a medical cannabis dispensary, not one of the gray-market gifting shops. The board seems to think that this fact alone resolves the community’s concerns about crime, loitering, etc. because these medical dispensaries are—according to the board—“well-regulated.” The board seems to think that none of the blight that surrounds the gray-market shops happens near a medical dispensary. However, anyone with eyes can see this is patently wrong. When you have a system that allows anyone to go online and self-certify as needing medical cannabis, the “medical” distinction ceases to lose any meaning and the impact on the community is the same as with the gifting shops.

Agree with this and also: the current plan is to convert the gifting shops to medical dispensaries so that they CAN be regulated. So... regulate them. Like by not allowing them to operate close to schools.

The arguments by McDuffie and White are especially infuriating because they involve zero logic. As a longtime Ward 5 resident, I'm feel confident McDuffie is literally in the pocket of the cannabis businesses -- I think that guy is on the take. White I think might just be dumb.

That’s why they call him “Council-member McPuffie.”

[Anonymous]

It’s also a testament to how ineffective Allen is that he couldn’t even get buy in from his colleagues on keeping weed stores 300 feet away from schools. What a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s also a testament to how ineffective Allen is that he couldn’t even get buy in from his colleagues on keeping weed stores 300 feet away from schools. What a joke.

This isn’t really fair. It’s more a testament to how ineffective the Council is that they couldn’t support legislation to keep weed away from schools. Allen and Pinto at least tried. Mendelson leaned back in his chair and laughed and got up and walked around impatiently as it was being discussed. Mendelson and McDuffie are the problem.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Good lord, who cares?

Kids under 21 aren't even allowed to buy pot, why does it matter if it's being sold to legal, consenting adults in the vicinity?

If stores are selling to underage kids, that's a completely separate problem and can be dealt with separately without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Nobody flips their lid over restaurants serving cocktails or supermarkets selling beer near schools, why would pot be any different?

I care. My kids go to school there. I don’t want the school to have to divert scarce resources from learning to expanded supervision and security at dismissal if this application is approved. I don't want my kids to no longer be able to play outside or go outside for lunch during the school day. I don’t want to deal with double parked cars and couriers picking up delivery orders. I don’t want more traffic on that block leading to more frustrated drivers and increasing the risk that kids get hit crossing the cross walks on the way to the metro. I don’t want the allure of cannabis around impressionable young kids.

This fantasy doom scenario only exists in your head. Land the helicopter Karen, you kids will be fine. If you clutch those pearls any harder you'll need to get them surgically removed.

Enough with the "pearl clutcher" nonsense. Do you really think it makes sense by law to expose young kids to available drugs and persons (some addicts) taking drugs in public on the way to and from school?

I’d like to know where the PP who is accusing others of pearl clutching lives. Do PP’s kids go to a school next to a dispensary? Does PP live next to a dispensary? If not, then PP should shut it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s also a testament to how ineffective Allen is that he couldn’t even get buy in from his colleagues on keeping weed stores 300 feet away from schools. What a joke.

This isn’t really fair. It’s more a testament to how ineffective the Council is that they couldn’t support legislation to keep weed away from schools. Allen and Pinto at least tried. Mendelson leaned back in his chair and laughed and got up and walked around impatiently as it was being discussed. Mendelson and McDuffie are the problem.

Mendelson and McDuffie could have been outvoted if Allen could build consensus.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The proliferation of head shops overall are so unattractive. Yuck. Also, they should be required to have life size posters of young people who need to have lung transplants from vaping. Medical is what you'll need when you head down the recreational smoking anything road. I realize the medical dispensary is different from a head shop, but it also doesn't need to be near a school. It's bizarre how hard it is for a venue to get a liquor license or have a band play (god forbid we have a few extra decibals) but this is "fine". Idiots.

I can't believe people are trying to withhold vital medication from sick citizens. I thought we wanted healthcare for everyone. This is about healthcare.

Marijuana has the same medical benefits as vodka. Nothing more.

Marijuana is healthcare. Why do you insist on dogma from the 1980s?

https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/medical-marijuana-faq

Vodka is also healthcare.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The proliferation of head shops overall are so unattractive. Yuck. Also, they should be required to have life size posters of young people who need to have lung transplants from vaping. Medical is what you'll need when you head down the recreational smoking anything road. I realize the medical dispensary is different from a head shop, but it also doesn't need to be near a school. It's bizarre how hard it is for a venue to get a liquor license or have a band play (god forbid we have a few extra decibals) but this is "fine". Idiots.

I can't believe people are trying to withhold vital medication from sick citizens. I thought we wanted healthcare for everyone. This is about healthcare.

Marijuana has the same medical benefits as vodka. Nothing more.

Marijuana is healthcare. Why do you insist on dogma from the 1980s?

https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/medical-marijuana-faq

Vodka is also healthcare.

You may remember that liquor stores didn't close during the pandemic. People need their medication.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The proliferation of head shops overall are so unattractive. Yuck. Also, they should be required to have life size posters of young people who need to have lung transplants from vaping. Medical is what you'll need when you head down the recreational smoking anything road. I realize the medical dispensary is different from a head shop, but it also doesn't need to be near a school. It's bizarre how hard it is for a venue to get a liquor license or have a band play (god forbid we have a few extra decibals) but this is "fine". Idiots.

I can't believe people are trying to withhold vital medication from sick citizens. I thought we wanted healthcare for everyone. This is about healthcare.

Marijuana has the same medical benefits as vodka. Nothing more.

Marijuana is healthcare. Why do you insist on dogma from the 1980s?

https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/medical-marijuana-faq

Vodka is also healthcare.

Rubbing alcohol for outside booboos. Drinking alcohol for inside booboos.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The proliferation of head shops overall are so unattractive. Yuck. Also, they should be required to have life size posters of young people who need to have lung transplants from vaping. Medical is what you'll need when you head down the recreational smoking anything road. I realize the medical dispensary is different from a head shop, but it also doesn't need to be near a school. It's bizarre how hard it is for a venue to get a liquor license or have a band play (god forbid we have a few extra decibals) but this is "fine". Idiots.

I can't believe people are trying to withhold vital medication from sick citizens. I thought we wanted healthcare for everyone. This is about healthcare.

Marijuana has the same medical benefits as vodka. Nothing more.

Marijuana is healthcare. Why do you insist on dogma from the 1980s?

https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/medical-marijuana-faq

Vodka is also healthcare.

You may remember that liquor stores didn't close during the pandemic. People need their medication.

People can have their medication. But does it need to be next door to a school? No.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The proliferation of head shops overall are so unattractive. Yuck. Also, they should be required to have life size posters of young people who need to have lung transplants from vaping. Medical is what you'll need when you head down the recreational smoking anything road. I realize the medical dispensary is different from a head shop, but it also doesn't need to be near a school. It's bizarre how hard it is for a venue to get a liquor license or have a band play (god forbid we have a few extra decibals) but this is "fine". Idiots.

I can't believe people are trying to withhold vital medication from sick citizens. I thought we wanted healthcare for everyone. This is about healthcare.

Marijuana has the same medical benefits as vodka. Nothing more.

Marijuana is healthcare. Why do you insist on dogma from the 1980s?

https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/medical-marijuana-faq

Vodka is also healthcare.

You may remember that liquor stores didn't close during the pandemic. People need their medication.

People can have their medication. But does it need to be next door to a school? No.

Right — and as been discussed upthread, DC is using the legal framework of medical marijuana to regulate the recreational drug market that currently exists as a grey market “gifting” system. There is no intention to limit to people with medical diagnoses— you can self certify to a medical need and get a card for two years. DC is doing this workaround because Congress prevented DC from legalizing a recreational drug market in an appropriations rider. So, IMO: using medical marijuana to regulate the recreational grey gifting market: good. Not closing a loophole to allow a dispensary by a school (and not allowing the owner to figure something else out): bad.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The proliferation of head shops overall are so unattractive. Yuck. Also, they should be required to have life size posters of young people who need to have lung transplants from vaping. Medical is what you'll need when you head down the recreational smoking anything road. I realize the medical dispensary is different from a head shop, but it also doesn't need to be near a school. It's bizarre how hard it is for a venue to get a liquor license or have a band play (god forbid we have a few extra decibals) but this is "fine". Idiots.

I can't believe people are trying to withhold vital medication from sick citizens. I thought we wanted healthcare for everyone. This is about healthcare.

I said medical dispensaries are different from head shops. But neither one belongs next to a school.

"medical dispensaries."

what exactly does pot treat? apparently it treats EVERYTHING.

if a pharmaceutical company made such flimsy claims about its drugs, it would be sued out of existence.

Everything about "medical marijuana" is a lie.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The proliferation of head shops overall are so unattractive. Yuck. Also, they should be required to have life size posters of young people who need to have lung transplants from vaping. Medical is what you'll need when you head down the recreational smoking anything road. I realize the medical dispensary is different from a head shop, but it also doesn't need to be near a school. It's bizarre how hard it is for a venue to get a liquor license or have a band play (god forbid we have a few extra decibals) but this is "fine". Idiots.

I can't believe people are trying to withhold vital medication from sick citizens. I thought we wanted healthcare for everyone. This is about healthcare.

Bullshit. It’s about addicts and stoners. If it were “medical” the FDA would regulate it and pharmacies (not sleazy “dispensaries”) would sell it.

You are right about one thing, the current system is silly. It should be completely legal and controlled and taxed like alcohol. Sure, the histrionic Nancy Reagan’s out there will complain, but who cares what they have to say?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The proliferation of head shops overall are so unattractive. Yuck. Also, they should be required to have life size posters of young people who need to have lung transplants from vaping. Medical is what you'll need when you head down the recreational smoking anything road. I realize the medical dispensary is different from a head shop, but it also doesn't need to be near a school. It's bizarre how hard it is for a venue to get a liquor license or have a band play (god forbid we have a few extra decibals) but this is "fine". Idiots.

I can't believe people are trying to withhold vital medication from sick citizens. I thought we wanted healthcare for everyone. This is about healthcare.

Bullshit. It’s about addicts and stoners. If it were “medical” the FDA would regulate it and pharmacies (not sleazy “dispensaries”) would sell it.

You are right about one thing, the current system is silly. It should be completely legal and controlled and taxed like alcohol. Sure, the histrionic Nancy Reagan’s out there will complain, but who cares what they have to say?

Maybe you should move to Oregon. Or wait, the state legislature just repealed the permissive hug-a-druggie laws.