Sacramento Strip Clubs: Sacramento City Council
7. What’s your position on a law that would limit the number of medical marijuana dispensaries allowed within the city limits? Should the city collect taxes from these dispensaries?
I support Prop 215 and the rights of medicinal marijuana patients to have access to marijuana under state laws and regulations.
I don’t support city staff’s proposed limit of 12 facilities citywide and the proposed siting criteria that would essentially restrict dispensaries to industrial zones like payday loan centers and strip clubs. While I agree that these facilities should not be sited in or next to single family residential zones, many medicinal marijuana customers are sick or disabled and need access to transit. Moreover, I have had no objections to the eight or so dispensaries located currently in Midtown. Yet under the proposed rules, these locations would not be allowed. A more flexible special use type permit is warranted.