I wonder what would be "an over proliferation"?
It seems like if "too many" open up, the good ones (good product, service, and price) will get the customers, and the bad ones (poor product, run by thugs, too expensive) will get run out of business.

Jesus said to do unto others as we would have them to do unto us. None of us would want our child or grandchild thrown in jail with the sexual predators over marijuana. None of us would want to see an older family member’s home confiscated and sold by the police for growing a couple of marijuana plants for their aches and pains.
If ordinary Americans could grow a little marijuana in their own back yards, it would be about as valuable as home-grown tomatoes. Let's put the criminals out of business and get them out of our neighborhoods; let the marijuana users grow a little in their own back yards and put the criminals out of business.

how about banning the people who come up with these ideas sorry idea that isn't working has never worked and will never work.

How about focusing on real issues, dispensaries don't necessarily generate more crime. Pot smokers don't necessarily create more crime. The prisons are filled with entirely too many pot "offenders" and not enough of the real criminals.

It did not work during prohibition where polititions and rich folks had their stash and regular folks went to prison. The only difference is that alcohol is much more dangerous both healthwise and with driving and anger issues than cannibus is. Legalize and tax it and move on. Good for everyone. If cannibus is legal, no more cartel and gang activity around it because there would be no money to be made from it. Do your research and move on.

If everyone that needs medical marijuana could grow their own medicinal grade marijuana we wouldn't be having this discussion would we? We wouldn't have dispensaries would we?
If there's a will there's a way ! Lazy politicians want the easy way out. Fix the ordinance, cut the numbers down but not drastically, lines out the door will be just as much if not more of a nuisance.

This specific motion is a waste of our taxpayer dollars. Focus needs to be on the specific issues regarding clinics. Closing them all down is not the solution. As with Huziars NELA art walk debacle the community will only be left to clean up and rebuild what we have already fought so hard to originally build. Please take the time to read Patch's earlier related posts and comments if you haven't. Also please note I have a friend that is way to sick to grow their own and rely on younger family member to pick up their medicine from clinics. So just growing is not really a good solution for those extremely ill.

yet ANOTHER reason why Joey Weezer is a terrible councilman.
we had a chance to get rid of him but you idiots voted him back - this kind of crap is ON YOU

Thanks Starchy, I did vote for Huizar. His rival in the last election appeared to have an exceedingly cozy relationship with law enforcement - even had his own LAPD badge as I recall. I support Huizar's effort to discipline the mushrooming of pot shops in this area and have no sympathy for the pot shop lobbyists or the recreational users banging their highchairs on these pages.

I remember a very on time ago, when we in California voted to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes, AIDS, Cancer, etc... Maybe this need to revisited and requirements need to be made a bit more stingent. Regulation of Pot Pharmacy's needs to be created and better monitored, with huge fines for violations. Lastly, Taxes should be used be used to fund Anti-MJ campaign's, similar to anit-tobacco ads and programs. I don't feel we need to close of of them down, but uncontrolled buisesses without local resident's consent is unacceptable.

What? No more middle men? No more commercial pesticides on my pot? No more organized crime syndicates operating store fronts? And we thought this was the end of the civilized world.

A ban on MJ dispensaries is needed since the Californian state law is being misused. It was too broad and written in a way to be interpreted as a free for all for anyone wishing to make a buck. This is not the Wild West anymore. We no long live a part from the rest of the world. There are a lot of people who live in Eagle Rock who might approve of legalization, but don't want to see control of this substance to random businesses. Yes there might be some who are legit, but society needs a form in which communities can control their neighborhood. If they want every other shop as a pot dispensary then great - vote on it, but I think most people would wish for some control. After all, we are not able to sell alcohol without restrictions, nor cigarettes, and the same applies to serving alcohol too. Why should pot be any different? This Huizar ban seems severe but considering that Doctors are controlled handing out prescriptions, it is yet another example of how the big issue of legalization should be addressed and a better State law to be written to allow dispensaries to exist but on a city by city basis.

the party is over hippies!!!

hardly- we're just getting started.

Just letting everyone know that next Wednesday (Feb. 1st) is Jose Huizar's annual State of the Town address here in Eagle Rock so we are going to attend the event wearing Black attire to symbolize Mr. Huizar's misquided Black Market strategy. All rules apply of course, no yelling or calling names. That's what the Prohibition Crusaders like Michael Larsen do, we need to stick to the higher ground. This is just a peaceful show of disagreement against this new Prohibition on medical cannabis and to show support for these small collectives that have been such a benefit to the community.

This makes no sense. I spend about $60/month on MMJ because I only smoke a bowl before going to bed to help me sleep. So now, they're proposing I spend a couple hundred dollars on materials for growing, buy a house with a yard, find some way of protecting my plants from being pilfered as they grow in the yard, wait 6 months or so for it to bloom and all because people don't want to look at dispensaries? Maybe I should tell my grandmother, who is insulin dependent, that she will need to start making her own insulin shots at home because I don't like looking at a CVS on every corner.

Jose Huizar is absolutely clear on this issue: he wants to make sure that we can get back to destroying lives by waging a drug war. You don't get elected to city council to solve problems if there aren't any problems to solve! How will the jails stay stocked up if NELA doesn't keep up its arrest numbers?! Think of the job losses if the jails, prisons, and courts weren't flooded with drug war arrests. Lawyers, social workers, cops, prison guards, suppliers and contractors of all stripes have been feeding off the trough of human misery from our drug war.

And you "hippies" (legalizing marijuana is an issue for those younger than 40 i.e. not born early enough to be "hippies") thought you could just go out and free yourselves.

What does this weed do in our community? I don't see more fights breaking out. I don't see more shootings or crime because of it. If a busy dispensary is not keeping it's neighborhood clean - there are ordinances on the books to take care of businesses not doing their fair share to maintain and respect the neighborhood.

From scaring off organizers of Second Saturday to fighting against the devil weed, Huizar is out in front of the pack as a retrograde political dinosaur politician. Art Night and pot dispensaries have actually created employment in this area - unlike his freeway overpass built on Valley Blvd in El Sereno. He is governing from the 20th century, while we are 12 years into the 21st.

The Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council as well as TERA support Councilmember Huizar's motion to repeal the LA ordinance and ban storefront and delivery dispensaries until the California Supreme Court and/or the California Legislature can clarify an acceptable regulatory scheme.
We all agree that medical marijuana should be available to legitimate patients in way that is safe and respectful for both the patients and communities.
The status quo in Los Angeles does not meet those standards, which is why our local groups as well as the LA City Planning Commission and the LA Public Safety Committee agree Mr. Huizar's plan is the smartest route forward.

@ Rob Schraff. If you've been paying attention -and we know you do - this anonymous poster has been very clear about his support for medical marijuana for legitimate patients. If you need further evidence for the underdeveloped emotional development of chronic pot heads, try putting an old Paul McCartney and Wings album on the ol' turntable and "Go Listen to What the Man Said." @ STARCHY. Party on Wayne!

Geez Rob. A congent policy argument on this issue? I'm gonna leave that for the stoners, the salesmen and the guy running for City Attorney. As for the surveys, I know I've read a few, but I can't remember. Blame it on those bong loads I did in school. As for the gangs, me and Larson are going to be going door to door the deal with those fools once this pot business is handled. But he's going in first.

The councilman floated the idea to me over a bowl of killer kush at a "Silly Love Songs" karaoke bash at Larsen's pad. The pot mess is a heaven-sent opportunity for Jose to get some law and order credibility. it's a winner. Unless you think the Wayne's World bunch is going to get off the sofa and mobilize a massive get-out-the-vote campaign for the cause.

I don't know about the other stuff, but I've heard talk about a "Soylent Green" strategy. This will solve both the homeless and school nutrition problems quietly and economically. It also would appear that resin has accumulated on your pop music mental phonographic needle. The Captain and Tenille "Did it To You" ad nauseam from their home in Glendale - a city that knows how to deal with their social ills.

Yo Rudy, Why the name "Starchy?"

Wayne's World.

Hey Nimby, deleted your comment due to the use of profanity. Please see our terms of use.

Oooops. What was the word I used?

Yo Rob - I had an answer for you but it got deleted because I inadvertently used a naughty word. Sorry about that.

No worries, I got it and I thought your points were goo. How about fly-speck and re-post?

Yo Starch - LA Curbed is a big ol' site. Anything in particular you want to call to my attention? I do appreciate the anonymous post suggesting that "the President of the United States SMOKED WEED in Highland Park." That T-shirt would make a great raffle prized at a CD14 stoner, er "bake" sale should you decide to raise some money for the cause.

Yo Starch. I've never voted for a Republican in my life and can't see any reason to start now. Next guess Einstein?

Gosh Starch. You might want to lay off the doobies for a few years. Dave's not here, man.

Starch - A mind is a terrible thing to waste. Or, if you prefer, as the great Dan Quayle once said, "what a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.”

Good one Starch!

"What if the patient is elderly or seriously ill? What if the patient is unable to find a qualified caregiver who has the resources, space, and expertise to grow cannabis for them?

I have yet to hear a substantive response to any of these concerns. Anyone?"

In that case the elderly or ill could obtain meds from any friend(s) family member, acquaintance etc....they could easily obtain pot meds everywhere without pot shops. There is your substantive response you are looking for so no more excuses.

The whole world watches while we pepper-spray, taser and cudgel our own citizens for exercising their birth-right to assemble peacefully; The whole world watches while we strip-search and anally probe our own wheelchair-bound great grandmothers on suspicion of being terrorists; The whole world watches while heavily armed & masked government thugs break into our homes to ridicule, bully, threaten and murder us for using or growing a medically efficacious weed.

The prohibitionist model is one of blind ignorance, abject failure and economic collapse. Its underlying ideology is one of fear, envy, greed and hate.
Never have so many been endangered and impoverished by so few, so quickly!

* Do you wish to greatly reduce, even almost eliminate the market in illegal narcotics? Then please help us to dismantle Prohibition enabling us to Legalize, Regulate and Tax!

* Do you wish to bring about an enormous reduction in the presence and influence of organized crime? Then please help us to dismantle Prohibition enabling us to Legalize, Regulate and Tax!

* Do you wish to reduce harm to the existing users and addicts - who may be your children, brothers, sisters, parents or neighbors - by allowing them safe and controlled legal access, which will greatly minimize the possibility of 'peer-initiation' and sales to minors? Then please help us to dismantle Prohibition enabling us to Legalize, Regulate and Tax!