Just another tug or war on the ordinance issues. Every week they change so it's no surprise that San Diego is now in the hot seat. They have a large amount of clinics so I guess some people are starting to get nervous. Figures, they let these businesses open and then they want to shut them down. What a waste of time and energy. Guess we will have to wait and see what S D residents really want.

Seems they are trying to liken the location of medical marijuana clinics to the living situation of child predators.
HA! stupid government

I get the idea of not operating by schools, but churches? Day car centers? That is so ridiculous. Schools are funded by the government, and last time I checked churches were not. They just don't pay taxes, which is NOT the same thing. I bet that some of the people who go to the churches in San Diego also smoke cannabis. They are acting as if people who smoke medical cannabis are drug dealers trying to infiltrate our youth with marijuana. Way to blow things out of proportion. They act as if we leave clinics to go spread our medicine around. The reality is that most of us rush home so we can relieve what pains we can, with what we spent our hard-earned cash on, instead of toxic and addictive pills.

I meant 'day care centers' oops

I understand keeping the cannabis clinics away from schools and youth centers because children should NOT be exposed to that environment, just like liquor and cigarettes OH WAIT LIQUOR STORES ARE ALLOWED TO OPEN WITHIN 500 FEET, SOME AS CLOSE AS 300 FEET!!!! Great Message the Government is trying to send to our children!
This is also just another way to put control and put fear onto the MMJ Clinics and their patients, and another way to set the patients up to get jacked and/or caught by the Feds. Not to mention just by pushing clinics to operate in industrial areas still just generates money for the Government because you still got to pay for gas or transportation...

This is how it is around where I live, You have to be out of city limits to have the dispensary running. They don't limit the operation times I don't believe but it could be possible. I really don't see any of this to be too absurd to have to follow by but it could hinder the business they get. As well as what they stated, it will make it much more difficult for people who have diseases who limit their movement to get their medicine, which I think will really be horrible for those people but if this is what San Diego decides to do it will be something people will figure out how to adapt to. I just find this to be absurd in the first place to force patients to travel that many hours for medicine but the city usually ends up getting what they want, so people better start prepping for the worst and hoping for the best.

Most are in for the money anyway,not all...clinic owners should have started they own "union" All they agree on is the price.100-120 a 1/4 oz. COME ON....I know all about 'cost of running a small shop.' o wait non-profit. You guys should have 'weeded-out' the bad guys.They are not so-and-so members .[med's not cleared for mold etc] Discount for all members,all clinics...
Thanks-Grandpa......

The SD City Council voted last night in favor of the new regulations by a 5 - 2 margin, but they were able to change it from 1,000 feet to 600, which I suppose is somewhat better.

Wow, I know the whole keep so many feet away from schools and stuff, but some of the restrictions are going too far. These dispensaries are enabling people with serious problems to get medicine. When is the world going to figure that out?

We all agree about keeping the distance away from kids, but what about the distance they are trying to put between medical patients and their medicine. Seems a little lop sided to me.

I hope that the patients in San Diego and their local political support can do enough to either strike this down or somewhat fight it. It does sound like they are slowly tring to get rid of the collectives in SD. Here's to hoping that this ordinance doesn't last for long.

Everyone seems to want to keep cracking down on the very places we need to go to for our meds. It wouldn't be such a big deal if everyone had a place to grow their own but we can't all have that wonderful spot so come on, let's get our heads together and figure this crap out.

I checked on this site and there are actually 138dispensaries, i beleive. I twould not hurt to close a few, but u are right about the m trying to slowly shuyt them down

I'm going to be a little optimistic and chalk this one up to regulation and taxation. I feel that is where this industry is heading and we have to be willing to do that if we want medical marijuana to continue. I don't think regulating operation hours is bad. The 1000 ft rule is a bit ridiculous and should only be applied in obvious situations where a dispensary is too close to a school or kids.

It is nice to know that they at least changed it to 600 ft instead of 1,000 ft. But I still find it hard to believe that most of the existing places will stay open. It is the same old tired story, in which medical cannabis is allowed into the county, dispensaries open, someone gets pissed about it, and they work to eradicate medical cannabis. When will people learn that we are here to stay? Like you said, MrDoc, people will find a way. The medical cannabis community in San Diego isn't going to crawl under a rock because of a few naysayers.