Detroit council passes restrictions on pot dispensaries

[Zacha341]

"The House of Drama" on that!

...Can you imagine a citizen on the North side of 8 Mile getting stopped and busted for simple possession by suburban police while staring at "The House of Dank" ? It's like Monday Night Football....C'MON MAN !

[Zacha341]

There are online resources out there for the food confectionary and candy cannabis infused items I have been told for those choosing not to 'smoke' it. You have to have one of those cards to purchase. I don't know any details.

That's the question I've been asking for months, where the hell is all the weed coming from? If anyone has an answer I'd really like to hear it.

[Zacha341]

Yep. Well stated! "Doctor on duty", alright!! Incredible! What a mess -- Even if you're a proponent of marijuana for whatever use, or take the libertarian perspective, this is going to be a cluster-frig to resolve precisely per how it was initiated and set up in Detroit!

But of course, the D is just the right city for this to go on as it has. Right-oh! It's gonna be a trip-without-luggage to see how the ordinances, now, after the fact go over -- retroactive to the continuing expansion. Palm greasing? No, naw, now that can't happen......

Even the stupid casinos pay taxes! Welcome to the D where we don't even benefit from one of the fastest growing small independent [[well most are it seems) business platforms in years. Oh, duh.

This whole episode is a perfect example of why the City of Detroit is f*cked up. You would think a bankrupt city might want a part of the revenue being experienced in Colorado. 2.9% sales tax, 15% additional tax on retail sales, and an additional tax on wholesale. That's not counting any taxes from their property. $45 million dollars of possible revenue going straight down the drain, and this occurs as people are losing their access to water and pensions. What a joke. Tell me...who's getting paid to look the other way when this stuff is delivered to these shops ? My favorite is the sign, "Doctor on duty 24 hours for card authorization". Hell...there isn't a Doctor on duty at a real clinic ! There's more pot shops now in Detroit than Denver. No regulation, no security standards, selling chemical grown crap, but everybody's happy because we got our 'medicine'. WTF ??? Who gets busted or shut down between now and March 1st ?....anyone that hasn't grease some palms. I'm all for weed legalization, but this is the only place in America this would be allowed to happen. From local law enforcement to our State legislators, this is a sad episode.

[Zacha341]

Precisely! The AMA is not signing on to this for a while. Only when it is expedient financially for them to do so, will they. And no it's not totally legal.

Employers who drug test are not suspending that screening process - the just have not gotten the memo, withstanding the expansion of weed dispensaries in the city.

Great times in the D!

Read the articles and some of the posts here. Pot still carries a stigma attached to it. My guess is AMA "legit" drug dispenceries don't want the association with "pot heads". Besides, pot still isn't totally legal. The wrong people @ the helm could bring the whole thing crashing down.

[Zacha341]

Well his comments and concern cannot be said to be coming from the clergy!

^^^ And this is from Bong-Man! ROTFLMAO!

[Gannon]

Well his comments and concern cannot be said to be coming from the clergy!

I'm pretty sure Bong-Man has the chops [[and chutzpah) to open a branch of the "alternative" churches we talked about above!

Cheers

[Gannon]

Well his comments and concern cannot be said to be coming from the clergy!

And how did you know he wasn't a RASTA, anyways?!

LOL...

[Zacha341]

A smart Rasta indeed! Who wouldn't question on some level the dispensary saturation as it has occurred in the city of Detroit. The voices are varied so therefore less dismissible!

And how did you know he wasn't a RASTA, anyways?!

LOL...

[Baselinepunk]

"Pot shops" are no more dangerous than the fifty billion party stores and gas stations in the City.

Why did they regulate them like they like are party stores?

This is necessary meds for people out there. Do they limit the amount and where a CVS goes? You know, a place that sells schedule 1 drugs?? Seen many of those around the places where people go to practice thier myth. Why are they not treated the same as "Pot Shops"?

[Hypestyles]

There is a facility, just a few blocks east of the intersection of Woodward and E. Grand Boulevard, that is apparently a dispensary. It was apparently built out of an abandoned gas station. I forget whether the pumps are still in place, but the basic skeleton is there. The prominent sign up front says "Detroit Grass Station."

I'll have to take a cell-phone photo when I get the time.

[RaumVogel]

There is a facility, just a few blocks east of the intersection of Woodward and E. Grand Boulevard, that is apparently a dispensary. It was apparently built out of an abandoned gas station. I forget whether the pumps are still in place, but the basic skeleton is there. The prominent sign up front says "Detroit Grass Station."

I'll have to take a cell-phone photo when I get the time.

Google earth:

[RaumVogel]

I'm tired of looking of these green cross stores. Green cross stores this, green cross stores that. Its a hot spot for crime. A local church don't have too look at the green cross "WEEDS R US" location next door, next block and across the street. It's time to put those pot shops out the city, like a farm.

So a local church shouldn't have to look at a green cross store,but it's ok to blare a call of prayer to an entire community?

I think if they are "fake" dispensaries,then they should just legalize it or close them down.If they are not,they shouldn't be stigmatized.

[Zacha341]

It's a wild scene! Setting aside the issue of churches, bells, calls and stigma as the 'laws' and ordinances and legality of marijuana use [[medical or otherwise) is sorted out and evolve, the dispensaries have their own responsibility to comply, close or relocate elsewhere.

Tobacco, and alcohol is heavily regulated withstanding the fact that both are legal. Certain class prescriptions drugs are heavily restricted. Was marijuana going to have an infinite GREEN light [[pardon the pun) pass as long as it went? Particularly in Detroit? Apparently not.

But as we have a diverse community [[and that should be ok last I checked) everyone's not going to endorse marijuana use or want the dispensaries in the city.

[Jimaz]

Google earth:

Thanks. Here's a link to that Street View.

If you wander around a bit you can see what it looked like before it became the Detroit Grass Station. Big improvement!

[compn]

I find it fascinating that they didn't set up this stuff to be distributed through existing pharmacies. Pharmacies already had the systems in place to control these things.

marijuana is schedule 1, which means the feds hate it. which means if you have schedule 1 drugs in your pharmacy, the feds come and take your prescription licenses away. then they try to take your pharmacy business, seize your building and charge all employees with a violation of the controlled substances act.

there will be no weed in pharmacies until marijuana is schedule 2 or lower at the federal level.

medical marijuana may already be schedule 2 in michigan. although its quite confusing as marijuana is listed multiple times in the michigan controlled substance schedule list.
http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?mcl-333-7214
http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?mcl-333-7212

detroit's website has a small faq and a link to the ordinance here:

http://www.detroitmi.gov/News/Articl...ning-districts

[Honky Tonk]

marijuana is schedule 1, which means the feds hate it. which means if you have schedule 1 drugs in your pharmacy, the feds come and take your prescription licenses away. then they try to take your pharmacy business, seize your building and charge all employees with a violation of the controlled substances act.

there will be no weed in pharmacies until marijuana is schedule 2 or lower at the federal level.

medical marijuana may already be schedule 2 in michigan. although its quite confusing as marijuana is listed multiple times in the michigan controlled substance schedule list.
http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?mcl-333-7214
http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?mcl-333-7212

detroit's website has a small faq and a link to the ordinance here:

http://www.detroitmi.gov/News/Articl...ning-districts

If you park yourself across the street, on the Southeast corner, and look @ the station, you'll see what the place looked like, pre Detroit Grass Station. Unrelated question: does anyone know if that's the station where they filmed "Detroit Unleaded"? The same logo appears on the station in the pre view, as on the guy's shirt.

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm10778593...5?ref_=tt_ov_i

[paulj313]

Churches should be under fierce restrictions as well, so they don't go all evangelically crazy opening storefront missions on every block now.


I believe it is time to open a Detroit version of this church. They claim to already have one in Michigan somewhere.


Would LOVE to see what this idiotic council does with that.

Yeah, I think the small storefront church thing is quite a problem too.

[Gannon]

Yeah, I think the small storefront church thing is quite a problem too.

They should not be allowed within 5280 feet of another one, and 15,840 feet from any associated/aligned church [[since these are often outreach/evangelist centers to handle people that might otherwise disturb the sanctified, holy folk in the real church), nor within the voted regulation distance from any existing Medical Cannabis, Party Store, Gas Station, School, or Urban Farm.

None should be allowed to pop up in the small areas now legal for these important establishments...those should be protected zones until Cannabis finally becomes fully legal and decriminalized and welcome for the healing herb that it is.


It is as if these people don't WANT to have a cure for cancer. God has made a way, if only they'd take their Reefer Madness goggles off.