{"id":8268,"date":"2018-05-13T01:42:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T01:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/?p=18274"},"modified":"2018-05-13T01:42:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T01:42:42","slug":"ca-petition-circulates-to-legalize-pot-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/ca-petition-circulates-to-legalize-pot-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"CA: Petition Circulates To Legalize Pot Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/ca-petition-circulates-to-legalize-pot-delivery\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Perhaps you\u2019ve been approached in the last week or two near Malibu supermarkets by a signature gatherer (typically paid) requesting your support to sign a petition allowing in Malibu legal delivery of marijuana for medical usage. Three local residents identifying themselves as \u201cSafe and Legal Access\u201d are trying to drum up support for commercial pot deliveries in the city, now that Californians approved adult usage in November 2016 with the passage of Proposition 64. However, Prop 64 still allows for local regulation and taxation.<\/p>\n<p>The Malibu City Council addressed the issue back in December when it voted, 3-2, to ban recreational sales and deliveries. Currently at Malibu\u2019s two dispensaries, cannabis can only be purchased with a doctor\u2019s recommendation. When The Malibu Times asked if the issue was to be revisited, Council Member Lou La Monte\u2014who voted against recreational sales and deliveries along with Jefferson \u201cZuma Jay\u201d Wagner and Rick Mullen\u2014said Malibu was among the majority of cities in Los Angeles County to ban nonmedical cannabis purchases. It\u2019s legal in only four cities, although the city of Los Angeles is one.<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, with a movement growing to allow marijuana to be delivered, the council may be forced to reconsider or if petitioners have their way\u2014a vote in this November\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>Although she has financial interest in the matter, the owner of 99 High Tide Collective on Pacific Coast Highway, Yvonne De La Rosa Green, said that\u2019s not the only reason she supports the petition. She passionately spoke about \u201cpeople who currently cannot get access to this natural medicine\u201d adding, \u201cit would stop the black market and help the people who need it the most.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green described those people as seniors, the disabled and those who are very ill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are the people who need delivery, and ever since delivery was banned by three city council members, we have a full-on black market in Malibu. People have to get their medicine and if they cannot they have to go through other means and those means right now are the black market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Green claims unregulated cannabis can be dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople don\u2019t know what\u2019s in this medicine. People are taking a chance. There could be toxins or pesticides in it because it\u2019s not regulated or tested,\u201d Green cautioned. \u201cThe people who need it the most are the ones being hurt by this ban here in Malibu. They\u2019re the ones who are suffering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEighty-five percent of Malibu voted for Proposition 64, which allowed adult use and delivery,\u201d Green added. \u201cThe three council members that voted against it and created a ban are going against the will of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When questioned by The Malibu Times about marijuana delivery, Wagner said he is reserving judgment until he reads more about California legislative Senate Bill 1302 that\u2019s winding through the State Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf that is passed, it will be the law of California, which would override any county or city municipal rules,\u201d Wagner explained. \u201cI would like to be able to read 1302 in its entirety and I would also like to be able to read the measure that the dispensaries have proposed for the ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Part of 1302 states \u201cthis bill would prohibit a local government from adopting or enforcing any ordinance that would prohibit a licensee from delivering cannabis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As far as Green is concerned, the change can\u2019t come soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a dispensary owner and healer I have to see these people come in every day suffering,\u201d Green said. \u201cPeople with illnesses, diseases, people who are dying and need this medicine.\u201d Green described a woman who recently came in with her disabled child in a wheelchair suffering with seizures, but the two had to leave without a purchase because they could not physically make it into the building.<\/p>\n<p>Green concluded by mentioning a 2.5 percent tax she termed \u201ccritical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, we\u2019re losing taxes that the state would be giving us. We\u2019re missing out on millions of dollars,\u201d Green said. \u201cGod willing, if we get enough signatures, we will go on to the November ballot where it goes once again to a vote of the people, which is the most democratic process we have available in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/420-news\/international-cannabis-news\/ca-petition-circulates-to-legalize-pot-delivery\/\">CA: Petition Circulates To Legalize Pot Delivery<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you\u2019ve been approached in the last week or two near Malibu supermarkets by a signature gatherer (typically paid) requesting&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/420-news\/international-cannabis-news\/ca-petition-circulates-to-legalize-pot-delivery\/\" class=\"read-more\">[Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/420-news\/international-cannabis-news\/ca-petition-circulates-to-legalize-pot-delivery\/\">CA: Petition Circulates To Legalize Pot Delivery<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1616,9,1,3],"tags":[4184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}