On Tuesday, June 27, the City of Blythe held a commercial cannabis forum to give direction to the city manager on how they wish to proceed with cannabis developers opening up dispensaries in Blythe, while also providing extensive feedback for staff to make the final re-adjustments to the permit application procedures and forms. As an economic development for the City of Blythe to gain revenue by regulating and taxing medical and recreational marijuana, the permit process is still scheduled to launch in 21 days.
City Manager Peter Cosentini and City Clerk Mallory Crecelius are the administrators of the business permit process, granting two development firms commercial cannabis permits. Approved a month before
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“Dispensaries, cultivators, testing, manufacturing, distributors and transporters,” two of which the ordinance currently denies. Envisioning the favorable gain marijuana could potentially bring to the city, council member Eric Egan said, “I see it as retail, where people are able to walk up get what they want and be on their merry way.” However, he said he can’t see that happening in East Blythe. Hoping to have one dispensary in East Blythe and one in West Blythe, when it came to manufacturing possibly being done in East Blythe, Vice Mayor Tim Wade said, “You don’t want it in East Blythe next to any businesses. In doing research, I’ve found manufacturing facilities to be volatile, they’re almost as bad as a meth lab.” With the intention of cultivating both medical and recreational marijuana, Ordinance 883-17 specifies that a cultivator cannot be on Ag ground. Don Wiley, the owner of a nursery in town and also the first to make public comment at the meeting, thought it was best to remind city officials of the economic state Blythe is in, while they sought to make changes. “Maybe some of you haven’t noticed, but Blythe is in an economic depression right now,” Wiley
A licensing committee voted 4-1 in favour of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s proposal of selling marijuana in only LCBO type shops that are government run. This comes in preparation of federal legalization of the substance by next year. The vote also renders Ontario responsible for covering any citywide costs that are in relation with ending the pot embargo and new legislative tools, which up penalties for illegal pot shop owners and establishments where the plant is smoked. Ontario is moving for the consumption of pot only to be legal in private homes. This creates an upset for the Marijuana community as smoking in areas where it has been legally consumed over the years will no longer be allowed.
Another external influence on Harborside’s business is their clientele. The customers are a business’s reason for staying open. Their goal is to make them feel comfortable and safe. With the government cracking down, customers are becoming scared to put their names on any list that involves medical grade marijuana. It seems, with over 20 million dollars in annual sales, Harborside has found a way to maintain their customer’s privacy and comfort, making everyone feel a little bit better, at least for now.
According to the department of California law, “Medicinal and adult-use cannabis regulation and safety Act regulate, control, cultivation, transport, storage, manufacturing and sale of medicinal and adult usage” (California Legislative Information). Marijuana has been pass yet not many people would benefit from it, and in order for the benefits to reach the city of Farmersville; The City had to implement Cannabis Tax for businesses, this business are going to operate on the outskirts of the city and which revenues is going toward the City general foundlings.
“Chicago’s pot dilemma: Should marijuana users just be ticketed?” by staff reporter Frank Main, focuses on the burgeoning marijuana criminality issues being widely debated across American legislatures. The article examines the idea of allowing marijuana to be a ticked offense, like speeding, in both New York and Chicago, and the potential overall effects of this legislation on the potential overall legalization of Marijuana. Woods also brings up the potential issue of nearly all marijuana leading back to cartels. On the subject, Woods states, “The top marijuana guys — Mexico’s murderous drug cartels — are responsible for most of the pot sold on Chicago street corners. They’ve even started growing it in Wisconsin’s North Woods.”
Marijuana has always been a controversial topic. The use of marijuana has been a major debate in the government because the government has never had any control over it. However, the state of California in recent times has been less harsh on marijuana by passing laws that allow recreational use across the state of California. With this in mind, the city of Desert of Hot Springs lately has allowed opportunities for people to grow and sell marijuana for medicinal and recreational purposes as long as they get permits from the city. As a result, businesses that want to cultivate marijuana have to follow regulations that have been set by the city to insure
and allows for the cultivation, processing and sale of industrial hemp (Amendment 64). In turn,
Dispensaries, larger marijuana factories and corporations are based in larger cities in the Bay area like Oakland. Typically dispensaries are not allowed to profit from so the excess money goes to donations and city improvements. The larger marijuana corporations have more political power than the small grower because of permits and licenses. There is a tension between the two as growers and their towns rely solely on marijuana. Coincidentally, larger marijuana corporations gaining more power and influence, scares local growers of ending their way of life. The competition on marijuana caused the rift between the two especially since marijuana is grown differently. In factories and larger farms marijuana grown indoors look shinier than marijuana grown out doors. Because of
The legalization of Marijuana has made this drug medically beneficial to the city of Desert Hot Springs. As the first city to cultivate the area with Marijuana in California, the operation of this industrial sized facility sets up high standards for beneficial gain. The majority of law abiding citizens who smokes marijuana are hard working employees who pay taxes and contribute positively to their societies such as our city. The exploding market of marijuana will increase profit helping the city which dangerously fell toward municipal bankruptcy in 2014 can now have economic revitalization. By approval of tax marijuana dispensaries, the city reclaims a vast tract of mostly vacant industrial property to permit indoor cultivation. Although
Marijuana’s market place not only is becoming considerably bigger every day ,but also it is opening the way to other cannabis business related. For example, the video showed some entrepreneurs who wanted to build a chain of pot called “WeGrow” in California and in other 15 states which adopted the medical marijuana laws in the recent years.
There needs to be a different approach to see where there needs to be changes in the law. Maybe, the Commonwealth could start off by having dispensaries in only small population counties and moving on to larger population counties. The Commonwealth can ultimately adjust any issues and prevent those issues in large population neighborhoods. Additionally, there needs to be clear laws on using medical marijuana in public, while using a vehicle, and who can and cannot be a caregiver. Another important aspect to bring up is the security of the dispensaries and the security of the patients who will be recieving the medical
There are two types of licenses available under the bill. One allows for cultivation of cannabis and manufacture of cannabis products for medicinal use. The other allows for the research of medical cannabis.
In November, in what seemed to be a last-ditch attempt to save the ailing city, officials voted 4 to 1 to approve the controversial Medical marijuana cultivation facilities. City officials made the, to some, brazen move without the support of a large portion of residents and with some
Marijuana has been a part of American culture for over one hundred years. It has been vilified, heralded as a miracle drug by supporters, branded a gateway drug by opponents and proposed as paper, rope and a myriad of other possibilities. Yet for all the support both for and against it marijuana still remains illegal, widely used, fiercely prosecuted and barely studied. Legalized marijuana in the United States can be controlled and profitable industry by using low taxes, regulation and mirroring alcohol legislation. By allowing it to become an open industry it could be more closely monitored, save taxpayers millions of dollars in law enforcement costs and eliminate the criminal enterprise that profits from the illegal drug trade.
The marijuana plant when plated, reaches maturity within three to five months and its cultivated for various purposes not just for smoking but for other purposes such as industrial conversion into textiles, paper, rope clothes wax etc.
For centuries marijuana has been cultivated for multiple purposes, most notably for medicinal uses to treat a variety of conditions and alleviate symptoms of diseases and side effects of modern treatments. Since the legal prohibition of marijuana beginning in 1937, marijuana has increased in usage and popularity among Americans. In 1970 The Controlled