San Jose Mercury News columnist Scott Herhold offers his take on the city of Gilroy’s opposition to a new medical marijuana dispensary. His advice — drop it — is worth heeding in Gilroy and many other communities. ==================== Tucked away in the corner of a strip mall on Gilroy’s west side, near a dance studio and a martial arts center, is a storefront clinic called MediLeaf, a medical marijuana dispensary with a small cannabis leaf on its sign. On a wallboard inside is the message, “To love oneself is a long romance.” Under that is [...]
Dec 112009
A judge will decide Tuesday whether to shut down Gilroy’s medical marijuana dispensary even as the community debate over the collective ramps up, the Gilroy Dispatch reports. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Mary Jo Levinger is slated to rule in San Jose on Gilroy officials’ request for a preliminary injunction that would close MediLeaf, a cannabis collective that opened Nov. 9 without a business license, the Dispatch reports. The city is also seeking an injunction that would close MediLeaf permanently for zoning violations and for operating without a business license, but that issue might [...]
Nov 182009
Three members of the Gilroy City Council boycotted a closed session about shutting down a medical marijuana dispensary because the issues should be discussed in public, according to this report from the Gilroy Dispatch. our other council members voted to pursue litigation against the MediLeaf collective, which opened without a business license Nov. 9. Two days later, police served it with a cease and desist order that cites the dispensary for operating without a business license, operating in a district that was not zoned for a dispensary and violating federal law, the Dispatch reported.
Nov 122009
Gilroy police Chief Denise Turner says a newly opened medical marijuana dispensary in north Gilroy is “illegal” and is meeting with the city’s lawyer this afternoon to plot a course of action, according to this story in the Gilroy Dispatch. A 4-3 City Council vote against allowing the dispensary to operate figures in, but the immediate bone of contention is the lack of a business license, apparently.
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