The Gateway Treatment
Medical Marijuana
We haven’t seen all the problems that are going to arise from legalizing marijuana yet. It is unlikely that dispensaries that are ordered to close down will do so. Many will most likely move their lucrative business to the other side of the law.
Legal or not, marijuana is a gateway drug to illegal drugs like cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin. It is also the gateway to addiction treatment.
“A new law regulating medical-marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles is being challenged by activists who say the rules are too onerous, Reuters reported March 3.
The law is slated to go into effect on March 14, but medical-marijuana activists are asking the Los Angeles Superior Court to block implementation, saying the measure violates the due-process rights of dispensaries.
Under the ordinance, dispensaries would be effectively banned from most residential and commercial areas, and those forced to shut down would only have seven days to find a new location.
Los Angeles currently has up to 1,000 medical-marijuana dispensaries; the law is expected to shut down all but about 140 of them.”