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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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