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The protest rally will lead into the city council meeting where the City’s plan is to pass an “emergency ordinance” as the first step towards their goal of chasing all medical cannabis out of San Jose! In doing so, they are violating the civil rights of medical patients, invading their privacy, endangering the safety of patients, small business operators, the entire community, and even the city itself (through the legal consequences of their actions). The City Attorney’s office looks at this as a way to generate revenue for the city. The City plans to sue legally operating collectives, and they plan to force the collectives to pay for the cities legal fees. We need to let them know they cannot do this.

The Concerns:
* Only 10 Collectives, picked by a lotto system run by the Chief of Police
* $95,016 registration fee
* Industrial will not be allowed
* Sensitive uses: residential use, school, child day care center, church that includes a school or child day care use, community or recreation center, park, trail, library, substance abuse rehabilitation center or another Medical Marijuana Collective.
* “Commercial General Zoning District is the only zoning district for Collectives”
* “No collective shall possess or provide marijuana other than marijuana that was cultivated by the collective at the location”
* “No manufacture of concentrated cannabis is allowed”
* Hours of operation restrictions
* The Chief of Police and any other City Official are allowed to enter and inspect the collective and their records
* “Any existing medical marijuana collective, dispensary, operator, establishment, or provider that does not comply with the requirements of the draft ordinance must immediately cease operation”
* “Furthermore, no Medical Marijuana Collective, dispensary, operator, establishment, or provider that existed prior to the enactment of Part 8 of the draft urgency ordinance shall be deemed to be a legally established use and such medical marijuana collective, dispensary, operator, establishment, or provider shall not be entitled to claim legal nonconforming status”

Please help spread the word. Don’t let San Jose chase medical cannabis out of town!

Read the draft for yourself: http://sjcbc.org/2010/06/16/sj-draft-urgency-ordinance/

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