Comments for Marijuana dispensary gets temporary reprieve at http://lakeconews.com , comment 1 to 8 out of 8 comments http://lakeconews.com Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:35:30 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6617/919/#comment-9595 I don\'t think that becoming a city was a bad idea. I was early or pre teen when it happened. There was alot of people against it, Old timers mainly, but the plan seemed valid. I think, and this only my opinion, the best interests of the people were overlooked by the laziness and greed of others. Power = corruption in alot of cases. I remember being harassed by the police for fishing along the shore. They said that there was some vandalism in that neighborhood and I had to go. It was like we were all a bunch of criminals for living in the new city. Reality is that they were cops on a payroll with nothing to do. Then came the criminals. Its funny how one minute you don\'t really need cops and almost overnight, suddenly you do. Its like some city officials started to rent their property to drug dealers, ex-cons and welfare abusers. Trying to bring crime to our city. Oh, wait, that is what happened. Becoming a city could have been great. The jobs, the structure, the community service. None of which seemed to happen like it was planned. I continue to live here because I love the outdoors. I wouldn\'t make it in the city. This is also my home. Third generation hunter, fisher, builder and lover of this area.I hate what people have done, but what can I do. I would just hate to see us become worse and thats my problem with pot growers. I really don\'t have a problem with people who smoke pot except them telling me how wonderful it is. I ve smoked it. Its just another drug. But if we are not getting, as a community, the fees and taxes on this drug. If there is no structure to how it is processed. If the enforcement officers don\'t even know how to handle it. It should not be allowed to be sold. Its not rocket science. Prohibition gave us all the laws we need to handle this but thats not good enough for potheads. We should wait to see how another city sets it up. Someone who has a better track record of success. Follow their example. Like I said, thats my opinion. - cale_page Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:30:43 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6617/919/#comment-9585 the load said \"let there be weed\". - boondoggle Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:56:02 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6617/919/#comment-9584 indeed was a wonderful retirement and resort community. With our own volunteer Fire Department, and law enforcement provided by the County Sheriff, we had no need to become a city and create a corrupt police department, and a long line of city council members that couldn\'t lead a thirsty horse to water. What happened to everything that was promised to us, like better streets, better police, a facelift of Lakeshore Blvd and a better life with local government contolling our tax dollars rather than the county? All we have gotten is a bunch of section 8 housing with out of town rifraf to fill it. We now have city full of folks that will steal anything that isn\'t nailed down and is the home for the most drug dealers in the county. For those of you that voted for cityhood, just remember the promises you got to vote yes, and remember the Oak covered woods that are now filled with low income housing and apartments, and what you wound up with. Nothing but continued corruption. I voted no and will again sign the next petition to disenfranchise the city and turn it back over to the county. Cityhood has destroyed a wonderful community. - egbjr Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:04:27 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6617/919/#comment-9583 you think about the Highlands becoming the City of Clearlake, did it make things better or worse? - Donna Christopher Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:38:21 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6617/919/#comment-9581 Did you know alcohol, the drug itself, kills (as of the early 90\'s) between 350 and 400,000 people a year. This is such a wasted (no pun intended) war. So much money wasted-all I can think of is prohibition. - Sep Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:26:45 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6617/919/#comment-9573 The paperwork for a business license in the City of Clearlake says you cannot break federal laws. Stated plainly. How can they allow these places to continue doing business. Well, I shouldn\'t be surprised. They have let non contractors build homes and do work here for years without a second look. Why should this be any different. Lets just send out flyers to those who want to break the law, \"come to Clearlake. We bend the laws for everybody. Except those who try to live a good life and keep their families safe. You people stay away.\". I don\'t know if I have ever been so ashamed of being from this City. 40 years has seen us go from a beutiful retirement community with great schools and safe neighborhoods to some kind of inner city slum. Thanks city council for all the great years of greed and diservice. What a great place you have made us. - cale_page Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:11:51 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6617/919/#comment-9571 Clearlake\'s got Judy and Jo :P - lenny Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:23:13 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6617/919/#comment-9565 Interesting that other dispensaries are still allowed to operate yet this particular one isn\'t. Something doesn\'t really sound right about that, considering the excuse they are giving about not wanting to give business licenses to businesses who violate federal laws and the whole fraud thing. And, about the mention of fraud, to me, it seems obvious this businessperson was not attempting to be fraudulent if she was actually asking a city staffer about putting medical marijuana on the application. Seems like the city staffer is more guilty of fraud than the businessperson. At least, the business person seems to have been forthright with her intentions to ask a city government staffer what she should put on the application. I wonder if that person still has a job because if this businessperson\'s livelihood is being threatened it makes no sense that this staffer gets off easy because, chances are, if she did it in this case, the staffer probably has promoted this sort of activity in other cases. - purplegirl Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:43:46 +0100