July 24, 2012, 5:42 PM

LA to Ban Medical Marijuana Stores…

9 Responses to “LA to Ban Medical Marijuana Stores…”

Michael Whiteacre Says:

Proving once again how out of touch with the electorate LA’s City Council truly is. This is going to be a very interesting election.
July 24th, 2012 at 5:59 p
Third Axis Says:

Right, Michael. They just threw away millions in tax revenues, permit payments, and jobs for hundreds of taxpayers. Those rental/lease properties, once paid for by legal business operators of the dispensaries, will now stand empty to deteriorate in that shortsighted city. Nice work, city council and Mayor Villaraigosa.
July 24th, 2012 at 6:16 p
Michael Whiteacre Says:

California was recently rated 48th in business friendliness. With the help of groups like AHF and politicians such as those on the LA City Council, I’m confident this great state can go all the way… to 50th.
July 24th, 2012 at 6:51 p
Larry Horse Says:

Saddest thing is that they just took that money and put it back in the hands of the gangs and the shitbags they get the grass from in Mexico. Weinstein should fight this, how many HIV folks need grass to ease their nausea from the drugs so they can eat.
July 24th, 2012 at 10:33 p
Karmafan Says:

Weinstein isn’t doing all of this for the good of people in CA and those that are/might/will be HIV+. He is not a humanitarian. He is doing all of this to try and get rid of porno AND fill his pockets at the same time.
July 25th, 2012 at 9:12 p
Michael Whiteacre Says:

You’re right, Karmafan, Weinstein is no humanitarian. It is about more than money for Weinstein. He’s already wealthy, and is the dictator of a $200 million organization — and he wears a big shiny AIDS advocate halo, too. But Weinstein is also a megalomaniac on a mission to punish people who have (and watch) non male-on-male sex.
In our society, the group that has done the WORST job of stemming the spread of HIV SINCE THE DAWN OF HIV has been what the CDC terms MSM (men who have sex with men). By any logical and statistical standard, the stigma around the dangers of male on male sex (outside of monogamous relationships) has been well earned. Having failed to fix the problem (by successfully encouraging testing and rigorous condom use in the MSM population at large), the goal of guys like Weinstein is to spread the misery around. After all, isn’t it so unfair that non-IV drug using heterosexuals and lesbians don’t live in the same terror as MSMs.
Is there a financial component? Absolutely. As Steele would doubtless agree, condoms are an intrinsic part of AIDS fear and hysteria. Mandatory condoms in porn would constitute permanent, universal product placement for that hysteria. Without that fear and hysteria, funding for AIDS programs would dry up.
The problem is, no one looks at this logically. Even if HIV were the sole cause of AIDS, and there were no co-factors (which, to anyone who has studied either the history of AIDS, or microbiology, should seem ridiculous), viruses are spread through behavior. Everyone does NOT have AIDS, and we’re not ALL at any measurable risk. Your grandmother is not going to get AIDS. Look at the numbers: it’s MSMs, drug users, babies who contract it from their mothers, etc… with a heavy emphasis on the poor and disenfranchised. But those groups have proven difficult to reach — so the cynical move is to transform adult performers into the new Typhoid Marys. Weinstein’s goals are: 1) to punish in order to save face, and 2) to keep fear alive.
July 25th, 2012 at 4:45 p
max softcore Says:

You’re an idiot if you think the Tea Party is the villain here. There are a fair share of nuts, but also people who want the government the fuck out of their lives when it comes to smut and dope.
Obama’s record on pot has been no better than W’s.
July 25th, 2012 at 10:49 p
RickMadrid Says:

Mardicon hit it right on the nail! geez a smart juto! The whole state is going to go to shit in the next year. With city wide corruption, cities filing for bankruptcy like Vallejo, Compton, San Bernadino, Temecula, Stockton , and can’t pay their city worker anymore with raises and benifits. Sounds like a really good state!! Keep voting DEMORAT and REBUBS!! you’ll all be in the street’s soon. The pot tax would have generated Billions. Bendejo’s
July 26th, 2012 at 2:39 p
Third Axis Says:

Typical Ricktard diarrhea of the keyboard.
None of those cities have filed for bankruptcy, dumbass. Fact. But who needs actual facts when all you can do is jack off in a circle of dudes. Mexican’t.
July 26th, 2012 at 7:24 p

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