Walnut Creek Freaking Out Over First Pot Club Permit

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The fine folks in the Walnut Creek City Council scheduled an emergency meeting (!) this morning to deal with their very first permit request to open a medical marijuana dispensary. It seems their city doesn't yet have any laws permitting, regulating, or disallowing pot clubs, so the intent of the meeting is to pass a 45-day moratorium, renewable up to two years, while they figure out what the fuck they're going to do about these quickly encroaching marijuana maniacs!

The mayor doesn't seem majorly opposed, though her suggestion that such establishments might be more appropriate for "medical areas," such as their local Kaiser compound, would mean placing the pot club across the street from a high school. Apparently the pot people (the C3 Collective) have already been talking up their new, BART-adjacent location on the internet, announcing "a grand opening in Walnut Creek at the Oakland Blvd address for a boutique medical marijuana dispensary that would also offer yoga, pilates and acupuncture." Awesome.

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Anytime I've traveled to Walnut Creek I have found it necessary to be as high as humanly possible.
This can only help.

Yep. Prepare to witness a raw exercise of power.

Hey..
Everyone CaliforniaCannabisInitiative.org is the only true "Legalization" initiative.
Oaksterdam's ( Lee ) is a corporate empowerment initiative.

If we want to practice proper horticulture such as plant breeding as private citizens Oaksterdam's initiative sends us to prison.
So the answer to all these bannings is to make it legal not decriminalized.
BTW this story had the best "Voice" to explain what is going on.. You guys made Google alerts.. Good job!

But please volunteer today to legalize and let's let the cannabis prisoners out .. Oh yeah it says that in CaliforniaCannabisInitiative.org's initiative. Oaksterdam's doesn't...
Jack

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