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Grand Junction, Colo.
The decision on whether or not to ban dispensaries will not go to the voters. Wednesday night, the Grand Junction City Council held their second public forum on the fate of medical marijuana. At issue: how dispensaries should be regulated, or if they should be banned altogether.
Around 9:45 p.m., the council voted not to put the issue on the November ballot.
“We voted unanimously not to put it on the ballot because we were elected to make these tough decisions by our constituents,” said Mayor Theresa Coons.
Medical marijuana dispensary owners, workers, and patients were for this decision.
“Colorado voters have already voted on this issue. It’s now the council’s responsibility to make the tough decisions about what happens to dispensaries,” said Shawn Kizer, of Nature’s Medicine Dispensary.
Council member Palmer cited financial reasons and time on why not to put the decision to voters. He said the decision shouldn’t wait until November.
This does not mean that dispensaries cannot be banned. In the upcoming weeks, the City Council could vote to ban dispensaries or to regulate them.
The meeting Wednesday night was very different from the one two weeks ago where the public got to have an input. At this one there were far more people there in favor of banning dispensaries. However, there were just as many patients voicing their personal stories about how medical marijuana has helped them.
As Mayor Coons said as she closed out the meeting, this is not the last stop on this debate.
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And why not allow it to go to the voters? Isn’t that the American Way? WHO is afraid of WHAT???
They had their minds made up what they were going to do before the meeting even started. At least a couple of people who were against had semi intelligent arguments, but the rest seemed to be making just knee-jerked reactions and spoke a lot of half truths and rumors.
I think the city council got this one right. The average voter is too misinformed about cannabis to decide the fate of the dispensaries. Now its time to earn their money, now comes the decision that they get paid to decide on. Now comes the question: Are our city council members educated enough about cannabis to make the proper rules and regulations that will satisfy both sides?
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Was it the council who also decided Independent Ambulance service was no longer needed? Tough times for the Fire Dept followed. With competition no longer available, the band-aid was applied with increased fees. Who won that battle???