Loomis pot shop possibilities growing
Second party interested in opening medical marijuana store
A second party has expressed interest in opening a Loomis pot shop. According to Perry Beck, town manager, the town was also contacted by the owners of a Loomis property regarding opening a medicinal marijuana shop. Erik Peterson and his associate Lyle Innocent, owners of the commercial building on the corner of Taylor and Horseshoe Bar Roads, told Beck they were interested in opening a shop off of Swetzer Road in the industrial area. “There are many implications and consequences to these types of operations,” said Loomis Mayor Walt Scherer. “The council needs to take their time and determine the appropriate course of action, or regulation, for Loomis to take,” he added. Peterson told the Loomis News, “I have an associate who operates one in Sacramento. I’ve seen people use it for medicinal purposes, cancer. It is getting more mainstream and accepted.” Peterson also said he “thinks it would be nothing but positive” for Loomis. Peterson explained that the shops are called collectives and members who’ve received a doctor’s recommendation can grow and distribute marijuana to other members. He said growers do receive payment or “reimbursement” from other members. According to Perry Beck, Loomis town manager, the five-member council voted unanimously on July 21, to adopt a 45-day moratorium to “prohibit medical marijuana dispensaries.” The officials held an urgency meeting in response to a letter received from a Colfax man who said he wanted to open a medical marijuana shop in Loomis. The agenda for the urgency meeting stated the town needed time to “review the legality, practical ramifications and possible secondary effects of such a land use.” Beck said the item will be on the council’s Aug. 11 meeting agenda as an ordinance to request an extension of 10 months and 15 days, the maximum extension allowable. The town will need to review the “legality, practical ramifications and possible secondary effects of such a land use.” “We just can’t get it done in 45 days,” Beck said. Beck said that in 1996 California voters passed Proposition 215, which allows for the sales and cultivation of medicinal marijuana, but he said the majority of voters in the Town of Loomis and Placer County voted against it. According to the Web site of the California secretary of state, Loomis residents cast 1,485 ballots against Proposition 215 and 1,200 for it. Placer County residents voted 48,456 against the proposition and 44,484 in favor of it.
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Hmm...does anyone else smell hypocrisy? Loomis is drooling at the thought of getting a winery downtown, but a medical marijuana club is offensive? One man's drug is another man's means of supporting his family. Why is alcohol so desirable but medical marijuana is not? Wouldn't it bring people to town and provide revenues? Pot clubs are legal in California, so this business has every right to set up shop here without any more interference than another business would receive. Fair is fair.
Medical marijuana should be allowed in Loomis, but not in an industrial area. A shop of this kind needs to be seen. How about opening a shop near High Hand Nursery. That way, the shop won't feel "seedy". It should be part of the community and noticeable. The pot shops in San Francisco have dark curtains over their windows, making them uninviting. People taking medical marijuana for an illness should not feel as if they are doing something wrong, and need to be hidden from the general population. If Loomis approves this type of business, be up front about it and proud that this community has compassion for the ill.
I truly do not want to see a medical marijuana store in Loomis. There is no comparision between a winery and a "pot store"-I mean really people. I understand some people's need to alleviate their pain due to medical issues-I also know that the criteria for getting the access to med. marijuana isn't that strigent. Loomis has always been very particular in the businesses it allows in it's town and the fact that so many people are so conservative in this area-I'm very surprised that this would even be considered. I won't be thrilled if this goes thru.
So, according to my3kids, opening a Winery in the town of Loomis is okay, but a Marijauna dispenserie is not. What a Winery would provide is revenue yes, and would draw people to the town to spend their hard-earned cash. But would also provide more opprotunities for drunk driving, which last time i checked, took about a glass and a half of wine. What a "pot store" would provide would be revenue, and draw people to the town to spend their hard-earned cash on a medicine needed that has been prescribed by a legit physician. Also, most of the users of the medicinal marijuana would not partake in their medicine until they were at their residence (most of the time), because last time I checked it was still illegal to smoke in public. So with that being said, would you want a winery that would provide alcohol to patrons who must DRIVE home, with the possibility of dui arrests, which would also generate revenue and the possibility of deaths due to drunk driving, or would you prefer a pot shop that provides people a much NEEDED medicine that does nothing but make most users sit on their couches. How many vehicle related deaths have been attributed to pot? And how many attributed to drunk driving?
And beside, the stodginess that is rampant in the city council, would NEVER allow something like this in their fine town
THINK PEOPLE!!!!!
btheterrible, I couldn't have said it better myself. Please come to the council meeting and read this to everyone. It perfectly illustrates the hypocrisy and unfairness being displayed. And last I looked, we have a lot of empty storefronts in town, so why on earth would we rudely turn away a legitimate business? The proponent says it will bring in a million a year in revenue.
Who came up with the dark-age idea of a moratorium for a legitimate business? What is "seedy" about a medical prescription for pain, nausea, and a host of disease symptoms that are alleviated by a plant?
Is the opposition to a marijuana dispensary coming from the pharmacists who work in Loomis? Is it a conspiracy of the pill pushers who don't want any competition to take away their barbiturate and pain-killing pill customers? Do those businesses have to hide?
Loomis needs to vote NO on this moratorium, and allow the collective to open. Like it or not, it's legal and will bring revenue, just as the alcohol-serving places now do in Loomis, where most customers consume the booze and then jump in their cars to drive away.
If it becomes a nuisance, then it can be shut down, just as any operation could be.
Yeah....just what Loomis needs...a place that sells dope so people can get high. That's gonna make the roads safer and our youth more able to resist drug involvement for sure. NOT!
I don't drink alcohol, and I'd just as soon see it all eliminated, but most people do not drink alcohol to get drunk, high, or impaired. OTH, there is only ONE reason to smoke marijuana -- TO GET HIGH OR STUPIFIED. Yeah, yeah, I know the line: it kills pain or ralaxes you. Of COURSE it does! It's putting the user in a stupor, a literal trance, and diminished mental and physical state.
Anything that marijuana can be used for is already available in other medicines. Getting high is NOT a solution to anything.
You can not stop it - regardless of your personal feelings! It is the law!
You can not create a city ordinance or code that cancels a state/voter initiated law (or making it illegal). Prop 215 and SB420 are higher levels of laws that have been tried and tested, by the highest courts in this country and they still remain intact. Prop 215 was inacted by voters, SB420 was inacted by the Senate. To think that a city council can create a code or city ordance to cancel out part of these laws is crazy. It will force these businesses to operate outside the city. Wait til one of the many infamous med marijuana attorneys come to this little town and set them straight.
Like many little towns in this state, Medical Marijuana stores and delivery services are here to stay. It just takes someone smart to tell them(until the law changes).
If these businesses are allowed to operate and they pay taxes of 18%, and are operating as non-profits, these companies would contribute more money to the local economy than the local Burger King. Extra surplus cash would be donated back to the community to repair parks, bike trails, ball parks, etc. Pot shops reduce the black market demand while allowing everybody to share in the benefits rather than a select few drug dealers. It also offers real jobs to the local community. If I were to operate a pot shop I would give so much back to the community that it would be difficult to not like us doing business in your town.
Thank you Deja_View. We don't need to have a pot collective in Loomis.
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Ahhh....and here comes the parade of right wing, bigoted ditto heads that Place county SHOULD be ashamed of. DejaV...get a clue. The political theater should be a hint that your myopic, reactionary days are a thing of the past. Rush Limpbrain is doing more harm to your brain than a U-Haul full of pot ever could. I know...when you can't debate something on its merits, it goes into the "conspiracy" category. Like Obama's birth certificate. Are you helping Rush look for it? I'll show you Obama's birth certificate when you show me Sarah Palin's high school diploma. After eight years of what you consider a great "leader", the people have spoken and the pendulum has swung. Now go say a prayer in school. And be pushy about it. You're doing god's work.
I don't believe you have a clue nicklbag. The issue is medicinal marajuana. Your aguement for supporting this issue is to attack Deja_View. It is a typical method used by people who can't make a logical case for themselves. The descision to have or not have a collective in loomis, will be based upon rational dalogue, not name calling or rants. By the way, I know Deja_View, I think you owe him an apology.
Sorry, vicmarkey, but if it walks and talks like a ditto-head, then I'm not apologizing. Making statements like, "people don't drink alcohol to get high", and, people smoke to get "stupefied"...it DOES make me sorry. Sorry I wasted 30 seconds of my life spent reading his claptrap in its entirety. 30 seconds that I'll never get back again.
it has been medically proven that alcohol is far more harmful to the human body than smoking pot. due to popular belief, pot does NOT kill brain cells, or lower the sperm count in males. the only thing pot is guilty of is tarring up the lungs, not as bad as cigarettes and THOSE are legal. Alcohol kills the liver, and hardens the ole arteries. more stokes are attributed to alcohol and cigarettes. the REAL reason pot is not legal is because all the alcohol and tobacco companies dont WANT it legalized. and that goes back to frickin mccarthy! those companies stand to lose MASS amounts of money if pot was legitimatly legalized. and another thing, how many overdoses have been related to pot? how many to alcohol, anyone ever hear of alcohol poisoning? and there have been NO deaths due to driving while stoned on pot. TONS attributed to alcohol. Also people have overdosed on WATER! so should we make that illegal? the point is, will a pot shop in loomis generate revenue for this cool little burg? WELL, HELL YES! will the stuffed shirts in the chamber ever allow this? oh HELL NO! and it is a travesty. If there was a cancer shop to provide medicine for sufferers would this fine little town allow a shop to open up and disperse the medicine? if any of you out there answer yes to that, then yer a hypocrite, cuz pot helps chemo patients regain an appetite they lost due to nausea, caused by chemo. i mean WTF!?!