Posted on 07/11/2014 7:43:37 AM PDT by jcon40
In a landmark decision to serve the underprivileged of the East Bay, the Berkeley City Council UNANIMOUSLY voted last week to provide small amounts of free medical marijuana to low-income and homeless patients. Whoa.
According to the new ordinance, dispensaries in the area must give away weed equal to at least 2 percent of their sales to the appropriate demographic—defined as half the area’s median annual income: $32,000 or less for an individual and $46,000 for a family of four.
"It's an equity issue," council member Darryl Moore explained to Reuters. "We want to ensure that those who are in need have access to the medication necessary to treat their condition."
Plus, the freebies can’t be schwag weed. The law includes a clause that the “medical cannabis provided under this section shall be the same quality on average as marijuana dispensed to other members.”
But don’t think you can just walk up to any dispensary's window with an empty hand and expect to get irie goods; only card-carrying patients with prescriptions will have dibs on free mary jane.
"It’s about the best medicine for the lowest possible cost for people in need,” Charles Pappas, a member of the city’s Medical Cannabis Commission, added.
Although the decision has received a lot of attention over the past week, it’s nothing new for Berkeley. In fact, the Berkeley Patient has been doling out free cannabis to the poor for more than 15 years.
As part of the vote, the city also increased the number of dispensaries allowed from three to four, and will consider amending it to six by the end of 2015. The ordinance will not become law until final approval in August.
Read more at http://www.7x7.com/east-bay/berkeley-dispensaries-must-give-free-weed-low-income-patients#0QDezDgAdz8ABskj.99
Welcome to business in America circa 2014, they are going to end up wishing their business was still illegal in California.
Can’t they use their EBT cards?.....................Such a travesty....................
Supply liberally on election day...early ‘til late. :>) (Just joking NSA)
What could possibly go wrong?
Who needs drug pushers? The government is doing it now with tax dollars. We need to legalize drugs and “tax the hell” out of the taxpayers so the “government” can give drugs to the freeloaders for free. That sure didn’t work out the way the potheads said it was going to.
Time to pack up and leave.
Typical liberals. How generous of them to volunteer someone else’s money to pay for their generosity.
“Plus, the freebies can’t be schwag weed. “
My personal favorite line in the article
Kind of a vicious circle there, is it not?
Low income gets you free weed which lowers your ambition which causes lower income.
Read further on. The government isn’t subsidizing them. They just mandated that the medical mj shops give the pot away.
I actually don’t see anything surprising in this.
Medicaid is not a new concept.
CA is falling behind on this compared to other lib states,
I see Maryland governor Dem candidates running on FULL legalization.
The next “human right”
isn’t this a taking without compensation?
they are taking a possession from a business owner and using it for a government policy.
Is this satire?
Can’t be. The OP put it in Breaking News.
My personal favorite line in the article
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"Dude. This is all stems and seeds."
"Yeah, but its free."
HA, Ha, All the drugs and sex they want to pacify the
populace.
Soma (marijuana) and free birth control, everything needed
for our “Brave New World”. Huxley saw it coming along
with Rand and 0rwell. I guess if you can see and understand
the liberal mindset then this would be easy to predict.
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