East Valley likely to get 14 medical marijuana dispensaries

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• Slabside posted at 6:03 pm on Thu, Feb 3, 2011.

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  Each dispensary will be built next to a Jack in the Box, Burger King, McDonalds....

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• COmidnightrider posted at 7:28 pm on Thu, Feb 3, 2011.

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  This appears to be a "reasonable access" methodology for legitimate legal cannabis therapy. Considerable education is available giving real world insight into business logistics, ethics, and new industry issues via the Cannabis Therapy Institute http://www.cannabistherapyinstitute.com or email info@cannabistherapyinstitute.com

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• Rich posted at 10:19 pm on Thu, Feb 3, 2011.

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  Slabside,

  You don't get the munchies when you're taking legal, medical marijuana. You only get the munchies if the marijuana is 'illegal'

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• daniel001 posted at 2:11 am on Fri, Feb 4, 2011.

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  How is these "dispensories" being enforced?

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• Freethinker posted at 7:39 am on Fri, Feb 4, 2011.

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  "The agency is preventing the shops from clustering by limiting them to one within each of what it calls a Community Health Analysis Area "

  Now if they would only do the same thing to pawn shops, check cashing outlets, and massage parlors.

  Or even "prevent illegal felons from clustering" by having Mesa's Finest enforce the law already on the books.

  
  Until then it's just more BS.

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• Hotcopone posted at 9:02 pm on Fri, Feb 4, 2011.

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  azrepublican: Tell us how you really feel.. .Geeze.

  Actually doing things the way the Health Dept is doing this is much better and won't permit ten dispensaries to open in the same block as they have in CO. CO. is a free for all and isn't regulated nearly like it is here in AZ.

  I do think eventually Maricopa Co will need all the the total amount but not for some time.

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• doctorK posted at 6:18 am on Sat, Feb 5, 2011.

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  The US Government should overcome its own "denial" with respect to Medicinal Cannabis, which can serve as a safe alternativ­e to many pharmaceut­ical chemicals on the market. I believe it is very positive that the President acknowledg­­es the "validity" of this debate. Whenever the validity of the debate is recognized­­, such a "recogniti­­on" invariably implies that our side has a "valid argument"; this being so, it follows that our side (in favor of Cannabis/M­edicinal Cannabis Legalizati­on) has a very real possibilit­­y of winning this "perfectly legitimate debate", for otherwise it would not be a "debate". For example, to even suggest that Cannabis Plant has no medicinal properties is not even a "rational" thing to do; as a "recreatio­­nal" substance, Cannabis is incomparab­­ly safer than alcohol! Few people even know that one out of five people in Britain are expected to live to 100 years old, while Cannabis consumption in Britain is the highest in Europe. Look at Canada where the Cannabis "laws" are much more "liberal" than in the United States, yet the criminality, and especially violent crime, are much lower than in this country. And if all this were not enough, it is scientific­­ally proven that Cannabis use (as opposed to alcohol use) suppresses violent urges and behaviors. All this is true even if the President is "personall­­y opposed" to legalizati­­on (at least for now). But we cannot sit on our butts and passively expect positive developmen­­ts to occur. We must participat­­e actively, write comments at the news articles, write to politician­­s, sign petitions, register to vote, etc. Let's ask our politicians why, in this time of rising deficits, they would rather talk about taxing mother's milk than about slashing the so-called "marijuana enforcement" budget! I specifical­­ly urge all the young people to talk to their parents and grandparen­­ts and educate them about Cannabis vs. alcohol and hard drugs. As the logical evidence in our favor inexorably accumulate­­s, the "qualitati­­ve shift" will occur in our common consciousn­­ess, and we will win this "perfectly legitimate­­" debate!

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