Updated Nov 15, 2009 - 1:54 pm

Mountlake Terrace rejects plans for marijuana shop

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Todd Madison and Aaron Panagos applied for a business license in September to open the for-profit Botanical Urban Dispensary Service. They say they've been using medically authorized marijuana to manage pain for years and have run their business out of their homes since the beginning of the year.

The city maintains that Washington's medical marijuana law doesn't allow storefront dispensaries. The law says patients can grow their own or designate someone to grow it for them, but such providers can only supply to one patient at any one time - not the many customers who would be served by a dispensary.

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• shadyachmed wrote...

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  legalize it already...

  November 15, 2009 1:03 pm

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• AJ McCarrell wrote...

  Ugh!

  Have either of you ever been to Mountlake Terrace? For one, it's not a Republican city!! Secondly, it's a bedroom community for Seattle or Lynnwood. If people wanted to legalize it, they would have by now. Give it a rest. I doubt either one of you need it for pain if you smoke it, you probably just use it for fun. You can even get prescriptions for THC, so this whole "you have to smoke it" idea is crap. You just plain want to use it for fun, at least admit it.

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• Dadio wrote...

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  Republicans want it legalized too.

  November 15, 2009 4:13 pm

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• GmanWa wrote...

  Alcohol is worse

  My stepdad had complications from agent orange and "Bud" helped him alot more then whiskey. The only reason why it's not legal is because the states can't collect money off of it right now. This isn't going to make Bud available to everyone who wants it.

  November 15, 2009 5:33 pm

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• Tanya82 wrote...

  Totally agree with AJ on this one

  I know there are probably thousands of people who actually do get relief from smoking marijuana (like cancer patients for example). I heard the interview with one of two guys trying to open this despensary a short while back, with Dave Ross I believe, and I just got a complete loser vibe. One uses it for "chronic stomach pain" and the other for insomnia or something equally as ambiguous. Ever hear of Tylenol PM? What kind of doctors are prescribing marijuana to losers like that? So anyone can just go to the doctor and complain of generic chronic pain until you get the medical marijuana prescription? This whole mess just reeks of loser.

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• 333 wrote...

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  It's about freedom Tanya, and that means you might not agree with what someone wants to do...but it's not up to you to decide that. I think getting drunk is stupid, but I'm not wanting to make it illegal..Try living in one of these mid-eastern countries were you can't wear a bikini because some people think it's wrong....what's the differance?? I appriciate your thoughts..JUST DON'T TELL ME HOW TO LIVE, or I might start looking in your closet (double choca latte makes you fat, and fat kills....oh, time for a law)

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• Centerfire wrote...

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  You speak of insomnia like it is some kind of joke, and your assumptions are rude. I hope you never have a medical condition that would benefit from marijuana use. I have insomnia, its not just hard to sleep it can be impossible. I have been to several doctors and all of them wanted to put me on a number of different medications, most were addictive with nasty side effects and thats not something I want. What works for me is an Ambien and a little pot right before bed. I also don’t drink much, just don’t care too. Now I know what you are thinking typical pot head just coming up with an excuse to smoke, well I am not what you think, I am a US Marine no longer on active duty, I spend two hours a day in the gym, I ski religiously, ride my bike to work as much as possible, I am probably more active than most to say the least, and I have a well paying respectable job and a home and a great wife. I do not just sit around and smoke pot all day but it does actually serve a purpose in my life, just as much as someone who needs any other type of medication. Why not allow me and people like me a reasonable safe way to acquire our medication without having to sneak around like it is some kind of horrible crime. There is no victim when the pot comes from a legal and regulated source, it is the black market that gets the criminals involved.

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• AJ McCarrell wrote...

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  I never said a word about insomnia, yet you waxed eloquently about my supposed comment. One of the side-effects of pot is a decreaed mental acuity, but like alcohol, the user doesn't know it. Your whole paragraph is a prime example of why you should put the doobie down because you went on at me about something I never said. I am also a chronic insomniac and used to have a prescription for insomnia medication myself, but I stopped taking medication because I did not like being dependant on anything. Now I just work on music at night or blog instead to start feeling positive enough to sleep. That actually does help. I am a chronic worrier and it keeps me up at night. If I drank wine every night to be able to sleep, that would make me an alcoholic. Smoking pot to get to sleep makes you a pothead and a drug abuser.

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  I'm not denying that pot helps you sleep, but face it, Ambien is more than enough to do the job and there are more than enough other prescriptions you could get. Pot is not the ONLY thing available to you for your condition. You really just want to smoke pot for fun because you enjoy getting high, admit it.

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• Centerfire wrote...

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  Believe what you will. I know there are additional prescription medications that I could take in addition to the Ambien but what you don’t understand is I have been there done that and I did not like the side effects. Tylenol PM is just Tylenol with Benadryl which does nothing but make you groggy and in a cloud the whole next day, no thanks. Xanax helps but the addictive nature of it and the withdraws from not having it are something I would rather not ever deal with again. Pot helps its that simple, it does not take much to do the trick and it has no negative side effects. Whats so wrong with that?

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