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Welfare weed: Berkeley orders dispensaries to give out FREE marijuana for low-income residents
http://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | september 5, 2014 | Pedro Oliveira Jr.

Posted on 09/07/2014 7:53:21 AM PDT by lowbridge

Low-income residents in a California city will soon be able to get high for free.

The Berkeley City Council has passed a law requiring medical marijuana dispensaries to distribute 2 percent of their stashes to people making less than $32,000 per year or $46,000 per family.

Under the new ordinance, which was approved unanimously this summer, only city residents will be eligible and they must have a prescription.

'Basically, the city council wants to make sure that low-income, homeless, indigent folks have access to their medical marijuana, their medicine,” Councilman Darryl Moore told CBS San Francisco.

The law requires that the free medical marijuana, which is legal in California, 'be the same quality on average as medical cannabis that is dispensed to other members,' according to Berkeleyside.

Mayor Tom Bates says the move is an effort to provide equal access to what California law considers medication.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: berkeley; california; colorado; libertarians; marijuana; medicalmarijuana; rockymountainhigh; welfare
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To: lowbridge

Most of the pot clinics already do this. Don’t need government telling business what to do.


21 posted on 09/07/2014 8:32:52 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: lowbridge

America has become such a demented country.

Truly ready for the ash-heap.


22 posted on 09/07/2014 8:35:47 AM PDT by greene66
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To: lowbridge

It hard to believe that dope was illegal just a few short years ago. Now, thanks to the “first black president”, the government is giving it away free. Now that’s what I call “fundamental transformation”. The unwashed masses need to be kept high, drunk and stupid for communism to work.


23 posted on 09/07/2014 8:38:46 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a refugee camp or woman's shelter for illegals! It's my home! !)
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To: lowbridge
Isnt this a violation of the 5th amendment (just compensation)?

When liberals are in charge, constitutions means nothing. EVen the Soviet constitution allowed for freedom of religion, but that didn't matter.

24 posted on 09/07/2014 8:53:19 AM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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To: Iron Munro
Iron Munro posted:

CNN could broadcast a video of zero-hero in his skivvies on the Oval Office bathroom floor cooking a dose of heroin and "self-medicating" and the aftermath and it wouldn't make a bit of difference to 60 million voters.

25 posted on 09/07/2014 8:53:24 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Iron Munro

A sudden need to campaign in Berkeley?


26 posted on 09/07/2014 8:53:45 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Pilated
Stupidity is as stupidity does. Our country has become a science fiction movie.

It is poor leadership at the highest levels of government that has led to the decline of the nation.

The USA today is a larger version of NY City in the years before Rudy Giuliani was elected mayor and cleaned it up.

A series of weak democrat, liberal and RINO NY City mayors turned the city into a licentious cesspool in the 1970s, '80s and '90s.

Liberals were easy on street crime and law breakers at all levels - from misdemeanors to felonies.

Instead of enforcing the laws they were concerned with pandering to favored voting blocs and would just wring their hands over complaints that the city was out of control.

People reacted to the weakness and corruption of the mayors by losing respect for the city leaders and the law. People basically ignored any law they didn't like, from littering to graffiti, zoning, porn shops and clip joints.

When Rudy Giuliani took office in 1994 he immediately reinstated enforcement of all laws and prosecuted lawbreakers.

In only a few short years of his strong leadership he was able to clean the city up and effect a complete turnaround. He cleaned the streets up, he cleaned the graffiti off the subway cars and buildings, he let the police do their jobs, take the criminals off the street and he backed them up. He didn't side with the criminals and lawbreakers as our president often does.

That is the kind of leadership that is lacking in the entire nation today.


27 posted on 09/07/2014 9:04:22 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("If you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Liberals are always free with other people’s money.

See my tagline.

28 posted on 09/07/2014 9:05:51 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Pilated

America has become the movie “Idiocracy”. I believe it was fiction, but it is reality for some time now.


29 posted on 09/07/2014 9:11:01 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: onedoug
A sudden need to campaign in Berkeley?

The libs in Berserkley would probably consider an ad showing that dope will make you dopey like Obama an effective sales technique.


30 posted on 09/07/2014 9:15:30 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("If you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Mouton

So they show up with their EBT card and get free weed that the seller has to pay for? Gov’t confiscation it seems.


31 posted on 09/07/2014 9:15:32 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: Mouton

PS- Kaliphorniastan should open its own weed central.


32 posted on 09/07/2014 9:16:15 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: Covenantor
Obama touches nose 20 times during speech
33 posted on 09/07/2014 9:17:45 AM PDT by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: SkyDancer
What about free booze for low income people then?

That's what the extra cash option on the EBT card is for.

34 posted on 09/07/2014 9:33:31 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“ the government is giving it away free”

The government isnt giving it away free. Its requiring others to do so.


35 posted on 09/07/2014 9:35:06 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

BerZerkley Leads the way.. Uhhh.. to uhh somewhere.. uhh.. cough cough..


36 posted on 09/07/2014 9:39:19 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: RaveOn

Nice to see such respect for the 10th Amendment on this thread... < /s>


37 posted on 09/07/2014 9:56:54 AM PDT by Ken H
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To: lowbridge

Hypocrites. If they were serious about helping low-income people they’d order all pharmacies in Berkeley to give away 2% of their prescriptions to poor people. Same with liquor stores, grocery stores, gas stations, auto dealerships, home builders, clothing stores and electronics stores: you MUST give away 2% of your goods to low-income people.

Still, I’m touched that they are so concerned that low-income people should get free pot. It’s a start at any rate towards requiring that ALL evil business owners give away their stuff.


38 posted on 09/07/2014 11:24:44 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman

I don’t have a lot of money; can I pick up one free six pack of beer a week? The Octoberfest beers are already on the shelf.


39 posted on 09/07/2014 12:20:58 PM PDT by Ueriah
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To: lowbridge
people making less than $32,000 per year or $46,000 per family.

Only in the Bay Area would that be considered "low income".

40 posted on 09/07/2014 2:45:42 PM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!")
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