After months of debate, San Francisco finally can legally go to pot (only with doctor’s approval, of course)-- we have our first ever codified marijuana dispensaries laws. Yay!!! Yesterday, the Board of Supes unamiously voted to agree to the latest version of the legislation which had been revised by Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi in order to address the latest round of concerns. Included in the new rules are limiting the amount of pot each person can purchase to only one ounce and made it so they can't be near schools. While not putting a limit on the amount of dispensaries that can run in the city, Ross made it so anyone who wants to open one up will have to go through the cities Planning Department first, which is kind of like the same thing. To appease opponents of his legislation, Mirkarimi added a grandfather clause that will allow several dispensaries that are open to stay open and every dispensary won't have to keep up with the usual amount of bureaucratic paper work the city usually requires.

Credit for all this goes to Mirkarimi who saw that there was a problem in all this and went to do something about it. For all his effort and for all of his attempt to make everyone happy-- neighborhoods, the police, activists, medical marijuana users, dispensaries, dealers pretending to run dispensaries, the Mayor-- he got nothing but agita. Nobody was happy, everyone whined, and something that he thought should have taken a month at least, took months. In the end, most of the complaints weren't from "the right" (meaning everyone to the left of the Green party) but with the circular firing squad brought on by Progressives. The Greens weren't happy with all of it and poor Ross drew the ire of Chris Daly. It got so bad, Aaron Peskin had to bring Matty G. for a sit down between Daly and Mirkairimi (which would make Matty G. the Tony Soprano of Progessives but would Daly be Ralphie Cifaretto or Paulie Walnuts and would Ross then be Silvio or Christopher?)

Needless to say, smoke 'em if you got the card.