Free Pot for Poor and Homeless Begins in August

Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 10 years, 8 months ago to Government
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In an effort to ensure low-income and homeless residents have access to the same medical care as others, beginning next August, Berkeley, California, medical marijuana dispensaries will be required to donate 2 percent of their product to residents earning less than $32,000 a year for an individual and $46,000 for a family of four.


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  • Posted by jimslag 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Winterwind, you sound like you know PRB real good. You must live or have lived near there. I lived in Louisville/Arvada in a previous life but worked construction in the Denver Boulder area.
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  • Posted by $ winterwind 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The PRB [peoples republic of boulder] has sspread its denial of the laws of economics out into Boulder County, but there are some very nice places to live just far enough away to snicker at them.
    Did you know, for example [snickers] that there are more cases of Lyme Disease in PRB than anywhere in CO? Yeah they don't spray for mosquitoes! /heavy tone of sarcasm overlaid with disgust. dopes
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  • Posted by $ Maree 10 years, 8 months ago
    Mimi was dreaming for 10 seconds about n zealand being a possible gulch. Sorry, but in this thread of Rocky MP's, auckland city is going to trial paying women $120 ( a month i think) to not smoke cigarettes.
    Whoops no that would be the rate-payers paying.
    Whoops again- nope you have to give up smokes, not be a nonsmoker. And not have colonial ancestory.
    Ah well i am back to earning my money, on all counts.

    Btw Mimi our birds do fly.
    Only a handful of native bird species do not fly. This country loves visitors, but resents immigrants in my view.

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  • Posted by Lysander 10 years, 8 months ago
    32,000 is a lot of money. Can't they afford their own dope?
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You have my deepest condolences for having to carry around that memory. There but for the grace of God goes I.
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  • Posted by Kittyhawk 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If they're required to donate 2% I still think the price will go up for the customers who are paying. I doubt the business will take the hit instead of passing on the cost to customers.
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  • Posted by jerry1228 10 years, 8 months ago
    incredible LUNACY, but what else can you expect from the law(?) makers in California. land of the loony.
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  • Posted by gwynmarilyn 10 years, 8 months ago
    I hope you all have notice they have found Pot does have medical uses in many more health problem then they knew. And can be grown cheaper then Major Corp. can make their medical pills. All so their fear of Pot has kept Hemp from being grown which can not be smoke but make into useful products like rope. Before WWII it was used in many products.

    No, I do not smoke it.
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  • Posted by Bobhummel 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    This is the same city council that demanded that Burger King, McDonald's, et.al. sell meat free burgers several years ago. Morons. Certified Morons!
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  • Posted by $ blarman 10 years, 8 months ago
    I've got a good idea - let's solidify our power over people by drugging them stupid and taxing everyone else! [/sarcasm]

    [shakes head in disbelief]
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 8 months ago
    They should put a wall around Berkeley With a huge sign at the entrance: BERKELEY Home Of The Idiotically Insane. Enter at your own risk.
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  • Posted by jimslag 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I was stationed at NAS Alameda back in the early 80's. I wanted to live off the ship and everything was so expensive I could not afford it. Then I found Bezerkley, which had rent control. The neighborhood was not the best but it sufficed at the time. I was a block off University just east of San Pablo. Lived there for 3 years and then left the Land of Fruits and Nuts.
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  • Posted by jimslag 10 years, 8 months ago
    It starts in Bezerkley, then migrates to other environs, somewhere like the People's Republic of Boulder or the Republic of Santa Fe or some other liberal bastion. I used to live in the Land of Fruits and Nuts, specifically in Berkeley and it was always the at the vanguard of liberalism. Soon followed by Boulder, the home of CU and yuppies everywhere, very liberal and now Colorado has recreational MJ. So more incentive there. Santa Fe is a mini Boulder or Berkeley, very liberal in a conservative state, very cliqueish.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 8 months ago
    Reminds me of the "Falkenberg's Legion" series of books, set in a not-too-distant future,where America is divided into taxpayers and "citizens"... with the citizens kept pacified with handouts of free borloi... a narcotic.
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  • Posted by $ KahnQuest 10 years, 8 months ago
    John Lovell has it right - the city just wants everyone high. It'll be much easier to herd the cattle when their brains are baked.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 10 years, 8 months ago
    Oh, that's a rich story, isn't it? First you have the looters. They mandate, force successful producers to give. You have this leftist idea that the masses should be drugged. You know that 1/4 of all women in the U.S. are on Prozac or related drug now? Most don't know that. With men it's 1/10. There are so many nice facets here. It's all right out of the playbook. I don't touch the evil weed but I can't deny the wealth it is created here in Norcal. It seems that the wealthiest business owners are in that industry now. Frankly, though, I think it's just a matter of time before the Feds crack down on the whole scene and give a lot of these business owners the perp walk.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 10 years, 8 months ago
    Typical stupid response.
    Why not just let them grow it and sell it themselves to eliminate their poverty?
    Oh, right. Then they wouldn't be a justification for all the other stupid things that Berkeley government forces on the people in the name of common good,
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  • Posted by richrobinson 10 years, 8 months ago
    So now the price will go up and fewer "sick" people will buy it. That means less available to the poor and the middle income folks. Sounds fair.
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