Posted on 02/06/2013 7:54:05 AM PST by re_tail20
Except for one thing: On the glass door - under a green cross signaling that cannabis can be bought there for medical purposes - is a sticker for the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW), the nation's largest retail union.
The dispensary, the Venice Beach Care Center, is one of three medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles that are staffed by dues-paying union members. Another 49 in the city plan to enter into labor agreements with the UFCW this year, the union says.
Together, the dispensaries are a symbol of the growing bond between the nascent medical marijuana industry and struggling labor unions.
During the last few years, unions, led by the UFCW, have played an increasingly significant role in campaigns to allow medical marijuana, now legal in California, 17 other states and Washington, D.C.
In the November elections, UFCW operatives also helped get-out-the-vote efforts in Colorado, where voters approved a measure that made possession of one ounce (28.3 grams) or less of the drug legal for anyone 21 and older. Washington state approved a similar measure and both states require regulation of marijuana growers, processors and retailers.
Union officials acknowledge that their support stems partly from the idea that the marijuana industry could create hundreds of thousands of members at a time when overall union membership is shrinking.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last month that union members - who accounted for 11.8 percent of the workforce in 2011 - now make up about 11.3 percent of all American workers, the lowest percentage in nearly a century.
Retail unions such as the UFCW are fighting the rise of part-time workers and a steady drop in real wages over the last two generations. Organized labor also has been under pressure from Republican governors...
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Bingo.
Don’t you think equating selling a plant to selling enslaved human beings is a bit of a stretch?
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one to remember that.
You don’t like rule of law?.
You don’t like rule of law?.
Do you believe the entire liquor industry is skirting the law?
No just try to produce liquor,inspecters to ensue.
So why are you peeing on the Tenth Amendment?
Can be sold to the public,so can humans in some places.
You didn't answer the question. Were you hoping nobody would notice?
I’m not breaking the law, just asking a question. Don’t you think equating selling a plant to selling enslaved human beings is a bit of a stretch?
No selling is selling no matter what the product is got it?.
No, in fact I don't "get it", and I doubt whether anyone else gets what you're trying to say, either. I think we have a language barrier...English is mine, what's yours?
The FDA rule is not "no selling," it's "no introducing or delivering for introduction into interstate commerce" (21 USC § 355(a)).
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