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Posted on 02/08/2019 1:43:50 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
The men and women collecting petition signatures outside Metro Super Market in Temple City warned of a marijuana takeover and greedy politicians eager to speed it along. They accused Andre Quintero, the mayor of El Monte, of wanting to make the San Gabriel Valley famous as a cannabis hub.
Quintero has backed a sprawling marijuana facility in El Monte as the start of a larger effort to make cannabis an economic engine for a working-class, predominantly Latino city that has long suffered from financial woes. He also sees marijuana cultivation as a way of boosting the city’s standing.
“I’ll look at the package and it will say ‘Made in El Monte,’ and I’ll smile,” he said.
But the city’s push into marijuana is facing an extreme backlash from its more well-heeled neighbors in the San Gabriel Valley, who fear cultivation will bring crime and blight.
Some of the criticism has come from within El Monte — from both Latino and Asian residents.
The dispute has sparked loud protests, talk of a political recall and a lawsuit, and laid bare clashing views of what large-scale cannabis production bodes for cities, their residents — and their neighbors. It’s part of a larger debate going on in communities in California and other states that have legalized marijuana, where some struggling cities are trying to lure pot businesses to help increase jobs and boost sagging tax revenue.
“They sold their soul to the devil,” said Alan Zhong.
Robin Wang, a philosophy professor and director of Asian American studies at Loyola Marymount University, said the Chinese word for marijuana — dama, translated literally as “large anesthesia” — connotes a poisonous stupor. Marijuana is criminalized in China and is generally believed there to have no medicinal value, Wang said.
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Interesting. I used to live in Temple City.
Not sure what I think about this, but hadn’t thought about the place in a while.
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cartel cultivation, bet on it
The Chinese know the history of the Opium Wars.
If this keeps up who is going to grow the necessary crops to fuel the munchies?
All the politicians look at is 2 things, will it shut the Pain Patients up and how much can we TAX it.
Not enough science to prove it works on ALL pain, now a new study it Lowers Sperm Count.
I’ve mixed feelings on it, tried it once in the 60’s didn’t even get a buzz. Probably better developed, but until the Feds make it legal it’s still ILLEGAL and I’m not risking my Home or Gun permit for a dubious Pain Med.
the irony is that they are all huge gamblers and chinese operate a bunch of liquor stores that peddle a different vice to addicts.
What are you talking about? Just go to the grocery store and buy the food! (/Ocasio-Cortez)
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