Tijuana Massage Parlors: Rx for dope
Now the task force has submitted its first set of proposals, recommending that dispensaries be prohibited within 1,000 feet of schools, playgrounds or libraries and within 500 feet of each other. It also recommended that dispensary hours be limited, that the storefronts be required to hire private security and that dispensary applicants be required to provide evidence showing their operation would be legitimately nonprofit. Future recommendations are to include guidelines for police enforcement and for patients and caregivers.
For an industry with the track record of marijuana dispensaries, these recommendations clearly don’t go far enough.
The obvious first step would be to allow marijuana dispensaries only as police-regulated businesses, just like massage parlors, strip joints, pawn shops and numerous other businesses. Would-be dispensary owners and operators should be required to submit their applications to the police department and they and their employees should be subject to criminal background checks. Police should be the lead enforcement agency for compliance.