Medical marijuana club opens in Mountain View

Fortune favors the bold!

I have to favor at least letting people decide for themselves about whether to use marijuana or not, and to remove the stigma from it. Most people have at least tried it at one time and it is just another recreational drug with "possible" medicinal benefits to it.

That said, no one really knows what or where the marijuana that comes into these clubs comes from. That is a problem. Is there any quality control, or toxic testing done on this. Remember paraquat anyone?

There should be logic based laws about everything and each law should have a reason and a logical justification or we end up with things like drug cartels taking over Mexico.

Charlie Rose has a program about brain science on last night speaking directly about drug addiction and experts who talked about how drugs can rewire and change the brain. The change redirects the behavior of the susceptable (50% genetic) person to seeking more drug, and is powerful because predictive wiring in the brain can set off impulses to get the drug based on almost anything and stimuli that are very common.

So, studies show that even herion addiction is not so bad if the person is rich enough to afford to get heroin and has a supply. The problem with drug addiction, at least to other people is the crime induced by the dealers who get to profit because of the illegality and black market.

The other side is that treatment for drug addiction is chronic, that is, it mostly fails because our medical system will only pay for so much treatment, and a drug addict needs treatment basically forever.

Are we really so stupid that we cannot solve this problem, or is the reason we are not able to solve it due to us being stuck in old ways of thinking about punishing people who just want to feel good. Is our society all about meting out that only certain people should ever be able to feel good? Like abortions, drugs are easily gotten by the rich. Everything in our society tells people that only the rich get to do what they want in this life .. so is it any wonder we have pathology around money and escape from such a harsh philosophy about people's behavior.

Underneath it is all is a dehumanizing enslaving system that seeks to control all reward and punishment for people based on screwed up notions of what people deserve for what we can pigeonhole them for ... ultimately is the driver for the disparity of wealth we have that is widening and becoming politically dysfunctional.

"Buddy's" marijuana, get it?

Is the "electronic music" supposed to enhance the effects of the MJ? Sounds like this will be a full service dispensary.

Legalize and tax grass for those over 21 yrs-- benefits

1-- takes away the profits to drug gangs
2---save money on prisons and jails etc
3---increased tax revenues

4---less competition for us and our kids because of the brain fogged dopers

The outstanding issue will how to measure driving impairment/DUI

Also the work place should be drug free, we know hour by hour how booze is metabolized and what levels of booze exclude driving, flying etc-- we need more science on grass, depending upon the dose impairment can last for days and thc builds up in fat tissue

When I saw the headline, I was skeptical. But having read the article, it looks like this place is going to do things right. There might be some problems in how easy it is to get a medical marijuana card, but that isn't the "club's" fault. I hope it ends up working out well for the members and the community as a whole. Marijuana can't be any more dangerous than some other pain medications, such as Vicodin, and it's safer if there's someone taking responsibility for where the marijuana is coming from.

Prostitution is a great way to add tax revenues. Why not? I am fully against it in a "club" way.

The location near San Antonio Road means that this "club" is closer to Palo Alto homes and children than it is to most of Mountain View. Just saying.

The City Council decided Tuesday to take legal action against the first known storefront pot club in Mountain View, operated by a multimillionaire lawyer who says he is ready for a legal fight.

Sounds like this is the perfect guy to take out a City Council. In order to fight a government entity you gotta have major funds. Good luck with your fight Mr.Lucero! Every dispensary that opens is another blow to the failed drug war!

http://www.How-To-Open-A-Dispensary.com

What's with Matt Lucero's pose? Are people supposed to take this "multimillionaire" lawyer seriously? He was broke not too long ago, and his lawyer's license is suspended...he self-reported his financial status. I wouldn't trust him.

I remember the people who were trying to get people to sign up in Palo Alto to set up a pot club. We voted on that and it failed. The so-called sponsors were from Stanford U but could not set up a dispensary on campus. I thought how about Hoover Tower? How about the SU Hospital? NO? Not a choice there. The CATO Institute stands out in that situation. The people who were asking people to sign looked like parolees. What a grim situation.

Palo Alto is about education - that is our primary concern. Protecting our children / teens from undue influences is hard enough as it is - we don't need anymore distractions for the children / teens. They have enough going on and do not need this distraction. PACC - this is not a follow the leader situation.

How about the right of adults the vast majority of whom have smoked marijuana for medical and/or recreational purposes?

There's a lot of sales tax revenue to made from dispensary sales and senior citizens need a fun place to go and play scrabble with their friends.

>> 4---less competition for us and our kids because of the brain fogged dopers

That's a really ugly sentiment when you see how it is now and has been used in the past with heroin, crack, etc.

Sharon's comment is not only ugly and grammatically incorrect -- you need a hyphen in brain-fogged dopers -- but also totally inaccurate and out of touch with the roots of Silicon Valley and the computer industry!

Check out the recent articles on how the FBI is having trouble recruiting programmers because the vast majority smoke or have smoked marijuana. And the US Govt. had Google and other Silicon Valley programmers bail them out on the technical mess they made of the health care sites.

It's been reported that San Jose paid for something like 13 cops and 3 branch libraries from marijuana sales tax revenues -- and that was a few years ago!

So many of these places shut down. They are not an asset to the city. I hope Mountain View can get rid of this guy, looks like a lot of trouble.