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HPMI Blog
Posted on Friday, March 18, 2011 10:35 AM
- San Jose City council has proposed limiting the # of medical marijuana/ 215 compassion centers to 10 city wide.
- There are currently 110 + compassion centers in San Jose.
- The government still has not defined what rules and regulations are the legal criteria for who would get to run 1 of the 10 legal compassion centers.
- To shut down 100 of the existing 110 compassion centers without even any plan of determining what qualifies someone to run a compassion center is absurd.
- These compassion centers are serving the voting public’s need of safe access to medicinal marijuana.
- This proposed legislation negatively impacts the sick, suffering patients who need medicinal marijuana to assist their health and well being.
- Closing existing compassion centers makes it harder & more expensive to have safe access by forcing patients to drive farther to a megastore monopoly, limiting choice while increasing the expense of safe access.
- The government should first determine what the legal criteria are for someone to successfully operate a compassion center and then judge each existing compassion center according to the merit of its performance.
- Compassion centers are not for profit organizations by legal definition in proposition 215 (1996) & senate bill 420 (2004)
- Compassion centers provide a vital need of supplying quality medications to certified patients.
- To auction off permits to the highest bidder is morally offensive putting profits before patients rights.
- 10 is arbitrary + prone to corruption.
- forces the market back underground.
- opens city to lawsuits
YES! THE MAJOR PROPOSED AUCTIONING OFF THE PROPOSED 10 PERMITS TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER – SHUTTING DOWN 100+ COLLECTIVES THAT COULD NOT PAY TO PLAY.
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