Officials Cite Crime Associated With Other Dispensaries in Area COLMA -- Medical marijuana dispensaries are now banned from this town. While no one has applied to open up shop, the Colma City Council unanimously approved an ordinance Wednesday night to prohibit any establishments that would sell medical marijuana. Police Chief Robert Lotti said city staff has discussed the issue for more than a year and that it was just "time to take it off the back burner and get it done." At the meeting, council members did not debate the issue during the public hearing, nor did anyone in the public speak for or against the dispensaries described by police as "dangerous enterprises." [continues 327 words]
Pot. Ecstasy. Liquor. Those drugs of choice vary among teens in San Mateo County, depending on the school. And, even as tastes vary from campus to campus, so too do the programs schools use to counter abuse. Many schools are even having to come up with different ways to say, "Don't do drugs." "They've heard it ad nauseum since kindergarten," said Jean Marie Buckley, a Burlingame High School counselor. "We're trying to create a new language and being more blunt with them." [continues 316 words]
