UPDATE 4/8/11: The City of Normandy Park announced that it is moving its Public Hearing on Medical Marijuana Dispensaries to 7pm on April 19th.
As we reported on March 21st, the city council voted to impose a six-month moratorium on allowing a medical marijuana dispensary within city limits.
The moratorium prohibits “the licensing, establishment, maintenance or continuation of … the sale of medical marijuana” in Normandy Park, and refers the issue to the Planning Board for review and recommendation.
“The City Council of the City of Normandy Park invites all interested parties to attend a Public Hearing on April 12, 2011 at 7:30 PM to discuss a proposed ordinance to adopt the findings of fact on a moratorium prohibiting the establishment of medical marijuana dispensaries,” reads the official public hearing notice, which continues:
A copy of the proposed ordinance is available at the City Clerk’s Office at the City Hall address or by calling 206-248-7603 and can be mailed or emailed upon request. Questions may be directed to City Manager Doug Schulze at 206-248-8246, email dougs@ci.normandy-park.wa.us.
Interested persons may provide testimony either in writing or by appearing at the Public Hearing. Please submit written comments to the City Council, Attn: City Clerk, City Hall, 801 SW 174th Street, Normandy Park, Washington 98166.
Here are the details:
WHAT: Public Hearing on the city’s recent moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries.
WHEN: Tuesday, April 12th 19th at 7pm.
WHERE: Normandy Park City Hall, located at 801 SW 174th Street.
INFO: Here’s the official public hearing notice sent out by the city:
NORMANDY PARK – PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
A PROPOSED ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE FINDINGS OF FACT REGARDING THE MORATORIUM, ADOPTED AS ORDINANCE 867, PROHIBITING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARIES.
April 12, 2011 at 7:30 P.M. CITY HALL, 801 SW 174th Street Normandy Park, Washington 98166
The City Council of the City of Normandy Park invites all interested parties to attend a Public Hearing on April 12, 2011 at 7:30 PM to discuss a proposed ordinance to adopt the findings of fact on a moratorium prohibiting the establishment of medical marijuana dispensaries.
A copy of the proposed ordinance is available at the City Clerk’s Office at the City Hall address or by calling 206-248-7603 and can be mailed or emailed upon request. Questions may be directed to City Manager Doug Schulze at 206-248-8246, email dougs@ci.normandy-park.wa.us.
Interested persons may provide testimony either in writing or by appearing at the Public Hearing. Please submit written comments to the City Council, Attn: City Clerk, City Hall, 801 SW 174th Street, Normandy Park, Washington 98166.
There’s a liquor store there, so why not a dispensary for people with cancer and chronic pain? It’s not like they’ll be selling it to school children on the corner.
why is this in the crime section its for medical weed is not a crime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you editor for moving this out of the crime section
What about us that just like to enjoy a little herb now and then..
They need to just legalize it and all this shit would go away..
One would think the DEA and ONDCP has doctors or scientists on staff. Sadly this is not so – we would like to see that changed and believe it is a step to change. Please sign our letter to President Obama requesting he appoint a medical doctor or scientist to the DEA and ONDCP.
Please read and sign the petition at http://www.change.org/petitions/appoint-a-doctor-or-scientist-to-the-dea-and-ondcp#?opt_new=t&opt_fb=t
To understand medical marijuana and the adverse effects of prohibition check out http://activistcat.com/
Just more stupid, time wasting political bull, as usual.
If anything should be outlawed, why don’t we take a look at the devastation that alcohol causes…Hmmm.
Isn’t there really more pressing matters at hand? Really?
Marijuana should always be illegal. I’m against its use by anyone.
I would much rather confront a person who is stoned on pot than a drunken idiot any day,
Coverofnight:
What negative consequences have affected you personally by a user of medicinal marijuana?
* Number of people who died of TOBACCO RELATED causes last year: 430,000 people
* Number of people who died of Alcohol related causes last year ( alcohol poisoning, cirrhosis of liver, etc.. NO DRUNK DRIVING DEATHS INCLUDED ) : 160,000 people
* Number of people who died from opioid pain killers last year: 15,000 people
* Number of people who died from marijuana (ALL MARIJUANA USERS, NOT JUST MEDICAL) : 0 people – There has NEVER been a documented case of a marijuana related death. People have been using marijuana for medical purposes for 5000 years. It is one of the oldest pain killers, appetite enhancer, PMS Cramp reliever, sore muscle soothers, EVER.
quotes from http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-09-30-drug-overdose_N.htm :
“Addiction to prescription painkillers — which kill thousands of Americans a year — has become a largely unrecognized epidemic, experts say. In fact, prescription drugs cause most of the more than 26,000 fatal overdoses each year, says Leonard Paulozzi of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number of overdose deaths from opioid painkillers — opium-like drugs that include morphine and codeine — more than tripled from 1999 to 2006, to 13,800 deaths that year, according to CDC statistics released Wednesday. ”
“In the past, most overdoses were due to illegal narcotics, such as heroin, with most deaths in big cities. Prescription painkillers have now surpassed heroin and cocaine, however, as the leading cause of fatal overdoses, Paulozzi says. And the rate of fatal overdoses is now about as high in rural areas — 7.8 deaths per 100,000 people — as in cities, where the rate is 7.9 deaths per 100,000 people, according to a paper he published last year in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety.”
“About 120,000 Americans a year go to the emergency room after overdosing on opioid painkillers, says Laxmaiah Manchikanti, chief executive officer and board chairman for the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians.”
The more people doctors prescribe marijuana to, the less people we are going to have dying from drug overdoses in an attempt to live a comfortable life, free of pain.
- User of Medical Marijuana in Normandy Park