SOME PEOPLE GET THE POINT AND OTHERS HAVE NO CONCEPT OF THE VALUE OF MARIJUANA IN BALANCING GOVERNMENT BUDGETS!
Oldcatman
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TALE OF 2 CITIES........
****New tax on pot clinics taking effect in San Jose
San Jose, Calif. (AP) --Just because it's illegal doesn't mean you can't tax it.
That's the view in San Jose, where a 7-percent tax on marijuana dispensaries takes effect on Tuesday. Pot providers can attend a City Hall seminar on the new tax Monday. They'll also have to start tracking receipts, although the first payment isn't due until April 30.
Voters approved the tax last fall and it could add millions of dollars to the city's empty treasury.
San Jose has about 100 medical marijuana shops. City finance officials issue a memo earlier this month that says all of them violate City Council guidelines that limit them to commercial areas and require them to be at least 500 feet from homes, schools and each other.
San Jose Mercury News
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****Loveland Medical Pot Shops Closing!
(Residents Voted In November To Prohibit Dispensaries.)
LOVELAND, Colo. -- Medical marijuana centers in Loveland have been closing shop to meet a Tuesday deadline set by voters who decided in November to prohibit the dispensaries.
The Loveland Reporter-Herald reported Sunday that most of the 11 businesses that were operating on Election Day are now closed and others are getting ready to do so in the coming days.
Sunday was "Customer Appreciation Day" at Mountain Medical Leaf, a medical marijuana center near the corner of Fifth Street and Railroad Avenue in downtown Loveland, the newspaper reported.
"Stop by for our last Blowout!!" read the invitation on the store’s website. "Free food, giveaways, specials." On Monday the dispensary will shut.
Loveland’s commercial medical marijuana industry hung in the balance last November, when Loveland voters were asked for an up-or-down decision on whether dispensaries and commercial-scale growing operations should remain in business.
By a gaping margin, they said “no,” and the clock began ticking on the March 1 deadline for business owners to shut down.
“If people really knew what we do, that wouldn’t have happened,” Mountain Medical Leaf owner Loren Tonsing told Reporter-Herald Friday as he sat in his office decorated with vintage Beatles posters, behind a desk where a dozen jars of marijuana buds were on display for customers.
“There was a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding. It’s not like we’re all just sitting around getting high," he said.
The ban prohibits medical marijuana dispensaries and commercial growing operations in the city. Voters in more than two dozen Colorado municipalities chose to ban medical marijuana centers in November.
Lawmakers approved regulations last year that gave municipalities option of banning medical marijuana dispensaries.
Copyright 2011 TheDenverChannel.
Oldcatman leaves a comment on this article!
"How many of you idiots in Loveland (and other small towns in Colorado) thought that banning dispensaries also banned marijuana in your dumb little town?
The only thing the banning did was to empty stores on your main street and the tax revenue that goes with dispensaries or any other small business.
Medical marijuana is still legal in Colorado and anyone can purchase marijuana with the proper state issued licenses.
IDIOTS!
(Oldcatman)
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