The Los Angeles City Council's Half-Baked Plan to Shut Down Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

[Robin Landseadel]

Cited due to mention of Inherent Vice:

	As first reported by Sandy Banks in the Los Angeles Times, the
	would-be decree proscribes new medical marijuana
	dispensaries from opening, shut down existing shops and
	coerce patients into joining collectives--essentially, forcing them
	to grow weed, a time consuming and arduous process
	regardless of how many times you play "Dr. Green Thumb" on
	repeat. And, in a move sure to further heighten already
	enhanced paranoia, the proposed law contains a provision that
	would forbid on-site sign-ups, making patients register their
	names, addresses, and phone numbers in advance, creating a
	data-base subject to review by police at "any time, without need
	for search warrant, subpoena, court order."

	Presumably, newly elected City Attorney Carmen Trutanich and
	City Councilman Ed Reyes, chair of the City Council's Planning
	and Land Use Management Committee (and reportedly, the
	chief authors of this draft), have been reading "Inherent Vice"
	and furtively incubating nostalgia for the precedent established
	by the Parker police force.

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