You are here

Home » Get Involved

Support Medical Cannabis Workers

SIGN THE LETTER!

The LA City Council has until October 5 to Repeal the Ban.

Sign below to protect good jobs and safe access in LA.

  • Step 1: Los Angeles Resident? Find Your Councilmember.
  • Step 2: Sign the letter
  • Step 3: Click Submit

Today's Date:


Dear,


I, ,

urge you to repeal the ban on medical cannabis collectives passed on July 24 and immediately replace it with a policy that affords “limited immunity” to collectives that maintain responsible operating standards. Such a policy will ensure uninterrupted safe access for patients, preserve good jobs in our city, and protect our neighborhoods from the harmful impacts created by irresponsible operators.

The City of Los Angeles has a compelling interest in ensuring that medical cannabis is not distributed in an illicit manner, in protecting the public health, safety and welfare of its residents and businesses, in preserving the peace and quiet of the neighborhoods in which medical cannabis collectives operate, and in providing compassionate safe access to medical cannabis for its seriously ill residents.

Councilmembers Paul Koretz and Dennis Zine initiated, and passed, a motion instructing the City Attorney and Planning Department to prepare a draft ordinance intended to accomplish these objectives. This policy would ban all post 2007 Interim Control Ordinance collectives and impose restrictions on the limited number that filed registration papers with the city in a timely fashion. This policy would provide for “limited immunity” to collectives that adhere to city-imposed regulations designed to protect our neighborhoods.

I strongly urge you to support the Koretz/Zine “limited immunity” approach to medical cannabis regulation in the City of Los Angeles. This policy strikes a fair balance between the needs of patients and neighborhoods, while protecting good jobs in our city.

Signed,


Clear signature

cc: Carmen Trutanich, City Attorney of Los Angeles

(No P.O. Box)
Must be in format: xxx-xxx-xxxx
To pledge a donation to this effort, please go to
https://webpolitics.us/stopthebanla/contribution_page.html

The Los Angeles Times Endorses Prop. D

Friday, May 10, 2013

Los Angeles Times Editorial

Of the three on the ballot, only Measure D will put L.A. on the right road. It deserves a yes vote.

A medical marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles. (Los Angeles Times)

The regulation of medical marijuana in Los Angeles is a mess and has been ever since Proposition 215 was approved by California voters in November 1996.

Prop. D is best of 3 L.A. ballot measures on medical pot: Editorial

Friday, May 10, 2013

By: Los Angeles News Group

The fact there are three initiatives concerning medical marijuana on L.A.'s May 21 ballot is a reminder that the proliferation of dispensaries is a complicated problem with a haze of proposed solutions.

UFCW Medical Cannabis Members Attend National Conference to Educate Members of Congress

Thursday, March 7, 2013

UFCW members in the medical cannabis industry discussed strategies to protect workers at the National Unity Cannabis Conference.

UFCW members in the medical cannabis industry from Locals 5 and 770, along with medical cannabis staff from UFCW Locals 7 and 881, gathered in Washington, D.C., to share ideas with other medical cannabis activists at the first National Unity Cannabis Conference.
 
The conference featured medical and legal experts, elected officials, as well as seasoned advocates from the U.S. and overseas. It was an opportunity for UFCW members to discuss Labor’s role in the medical cannabis industry and how to develop strategies that protect the interests of workers as the industry continues to grow.
 
Today, 18 states and the District of Columbia allow legal access to medical marijuana for over one million Americans whose doctors have recommended it. In those states, UFCW members work in accordance with state laws to provide safe access to medical treatment for qualifying patients.
 
UFCW members ended the conference on Monday with lobby visits on Capitol Hill to educate their representatives in Congress about the impact of the conflict between state and federal medical laws on workers’ job security. They also urged the representatives to support proposed legislations HR 710 and HR 689 designed to provide for the rescheduling of medical marijuana and for an affirmative defense for the medical use of medical marijuana.
 
“The conference was very helpful to us,” said Jeff Jones, a UFCW Local 5 member who works at the Patient ID Center in Oakland, Calif. “UFCW members have a lot of work to do to educate Congress about the challenges that we face as workers in the medical marijuana industry.”
 
“Our goal is to give them the dignity that their sincerity deserves,” said Dan Rush, director of the medical cannabis and hemp division of the UFCW, in regards to workers in the medical cannabis industry. He added, as noted in a Bloomberg article, that “this is a growth industry, and people are looking for jobs.”

Bid to overturn L.A. pot shop ban qualifies for ballot

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Activists seeking to strike down a ban on medical marijuana outlets in Los Angeles saw their challenge qualify for the ballot Monday, dealing a setback to the city's latest attempt at a crackdown.

Read More >>

Marijuana referendum qualifies for city ballot

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

City Clerk June Lagmay just announced that the proponents of a referendum to undo the Los Angeles City Council ban on medical marijuana outlets submitted enough signatures to force the issue. Or, as Lagmay's office puts it, "has achieved sufficiency."

Read More >>

Putting a lid on L.A.'s pot dispensaries

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

The Los Angeles City Council first welcomed medical marijuana dispensaries, then tried to regulate them, then tried to ban them. The ban has now been suspended because opponents collected enough signatures to force a ballot referendum to overturn it, leaving the council with this quandary: Should it put the referendum on the ballot and hope to persuade voters to hold fast to a ban (and then figure out a way to enforce it); or should it lift the ban now, obviate the need for the public vote and then get back to the difficult work of drafting an effective and enforceable ordinance that both improves access for the medical patients who were the intended beneficiaries of the original law and protects neighborhoods from over-proliferation of poorly regulated dispensaries?

Read More >>

Pages