While many of the people living in the city of Greeley, CO are ready for medical marijuana dispensaries to be allowed, City Council agreed tonight that the city is in fact not ready. Item number 35 during this evening’s City Council if voted in favor of, would prohibit the establishment of medical marijuana dispensaries within the city. This issue has been a highly debated issue within the city for the past several weeks. Item number 35 was in fact voted in favor of, meaning dispensaries are not allowed in Greeley.
Personally, I believe that the dispensaries should be allowed within the city of Greeley. Like many conservative people, I am against the use of marijuana; however it is realistic to know that people are going to use the substance whether or not it is dispensed in Greeley. According to Jeri Shepherd, an attorney, and a member of a nonprofit group in Colorado, studies show no marijuana overdoses which makes it far safer than alcohol and prescription drugs.
On the flipside to this belief, there were many people in the audience who felt differently, including six of the seven council members. Mayor Ed Clark admitted to having over 16 surgeries for his back, and never once was he prescribed marijuana. Ed Phillipsen also made a good point. He claims that marijuana is a hallucinate drug and that’s all it is. His point of view caused major uproar in the audience. He also claimed that you can easily overdose on marijuana, which I don’t believe is true. Finally, he made the point that even though medical marijuana is legal, it’s almost too easy to become a patient. He claims that “doctor’s don’t prescribe marijuana; they only recommend it because it is not up to the standards to be prescribed.”
With a 6-1 vote, many people in Greeley were left unhappy and left to believe that Greeley is making a mistake financially as well as morally.
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I thought I would write so I did. Mr. Clark had the choice to ask. I would ask if He offered Mr. Stitt any Medical Mary after he thrashed him about and sat on him, a child. Did he ask how Mr. Stitts back felt? Also to be quite serious for more then a moment I believe that the people of Colorado as a whole have spoken on this issue thus giving relevance to itself as a truth undeniable. In Colorado much of the population are stuck on holistic health choices, organics foods, vitamins, working out etc. Is it not relevant or in the interest of these people who believe this way to have an alternative to man made narcotics? Because to be quite blunt that is what they are as well “Man made Narcotics”. Are they not? With what seems to be more hang ups. What seem to be more health hazards such as bleeding stomachs, death, addiction, crime to facilitate them as a habit, theft, murder, over dose c’mon this is not the 21st century. I understand that you in particular Mrs. Kenyon have stated quite clearly your position but again,.. I felt like writing so I did.
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