Medical Marijuana Workers To Announce Plans To Unionize - Los Angeles

CBS-TV Los Angeles ^ | March 22, 2012 | CBS-TV

[Beaten Valve]

Medical marijuana dispensary workers are expected to announce plans Thursday to unionize.

The workers will join the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, which represents grocery workers, food workers, pharmacists and health care workers.

[Beaten Valve]

Might as well.

The City has pretty much already gone to pot...

[GonzoGOP]

Wow they finally found something that will put the narcotics trafficers out of business. Unions!

Soooo look for, the Union label...
when you are buying your joint, lid, or pound
Remember somewhere, Union dope is growing
so you'll be smoking so we can lounge around.
You know we hardly work, but we're still complaining
So always look for, the Union label, it says we deal for the U.S. of A."

[3rdcoastislander]

This will be the next union topic Ed Schultz with BSNBC will be campaigning for, while they give him money and ‘special brownies’ under the table.

[Arkansas Toothpick]

Yes we cannabis!

[reg45]

There will soon be a shortage of medical marijuana in Los Angeles.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Look for
The Union Label
When you are buying
Your joint, bag, or bong

While you are smoking
Our thugs ain’t joking
With those employees
Who won’t go along
(we’ll bust their b-—s)

No we don’t work hard
And we’re complaining
We just like paining
And whining all day long

So always look for
The Union Label
And that’s the end of this song.

[svcw]

Well there goes the MM industry. Higher prices and less service.

[PissAndVinegar]

List of union demands said to include:

Twinkies
bongos
silly putty
hacky sacks
and a yearly $60 Birkenstock reimbursement allotment

[JustSayNoToNannies]

There will soon be a shortage of medical marijuana in Los Angeles.

Doubtful - there are no LA-only shortages of other medicines despite pharmacists being unionized.

[Tzimisce]

...I don’t recognize this country anymore. :(

[onedoug]

Now pot smokers can support The Man.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Yep. And then give the government a monopoly on growing and manufacture of drugs. There will be none left in the US within a couple years.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

...I don’t recognize this country anymore. :(

You've never seen a union here before?

[melsec]

“Medical Marijuana Workers To Announce Plans To Unionize”

Yep we will just as soon as we can get our sh*t together, after some munchies. Man, I could really go a coke right now. You look really sh#tfaced dude - that’s some mellow weed man! What was I talking about ............... Oh yeah that’s right pass me the coke, man!

[GSWarrior]

This doesn't seem within the spirit of medicinal marijuana, somehow.

Anyway, this story will generate a lot of buzz. Can't wait for the smoke to clear.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

This doesn't seem within the spirit of medicinal marijuana, somehow.

What "spirit" is that?

[mouser]

My question will obama allow the dea to shut down a union shop

May be smart move for them

[GSWarrior]

What "spirit" is that?I don't know.....it just seems cattywampus or something. Good for them, I guess.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

This doesn't seem within the spirit of medicinal marijuana, somehow.

What "spirit" is that?

I don't know.....it just seems cattywampus or something.

I think you may be thinking of medicinal marijuana as a hippie-groovy kind of thing (and unionization as not). I reckon there are probably proportionately more hippies in the pro-medicinal-marijuana ranks than in, say, the pro-FDA-approval-for-the-latest-heart-medicine ranks. But primarily, medicinal marijuana is just that - medicine, with proven medicinal uses.

[Tzimisce]

You've never seen a union here before?

Never for something illegal or semi-legal or okay till the court ruling comes out.....