TOUGH LOVE IN SAN BERNARDINO

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Recently,
San Bernardino put in plans to consider alternate methods of medical cannabis collective
bans which could include allowing a small number of legal collectives that will
be highly regulated and monitored, instead of banning them outright.

In a recent
statement, City Attorney Gary Saenz announced the following:  “We
will present a plan which essentially acknowledges the futility and high cost
of attempting to completely eradicate marijuana dispensaries with our current
system, by which we will continue to spend hundreds of thousands and eventually
millions but will never significantly achieve success. Instead, by conceding to
California’s policy of allowing marijuana use for medical purposes, and permitting
dispensaries that are highly regulated, we can move the distribution of medical
marijuana from the black market to the regulated market.” He further
stated that if his plan is approved, illegal collectives “will no longer be
welcome in San Bernardino” come August 18.

This change
of direction for the previously anti-cannabis city—one of an estimated 200
cities in California that had banned cannabis collectives— is great news for legal
collectives in the area, but bad news for any illegally operating shops. As of
this writing, the City Council plans to have its review committee discuss the
implementation of the plan described by Saenz, followed by full consideration
at the next council meeting on August 4.