Medical marijuana may be back in the pipeline in Twentynine Palms. The city council agreed to study the issue at last night’s meeting. Reporter David Haldane was there and files this report…
Residents of Twentynine Palms wanting to smoke pot to ease their pain may soon have their day. The city council last night formed an ad hoc committee to study the local ban on medicinal marijuana with an eye toward possibly easing it.
“It’s legal and I don’t know why we would ban it.”
That’s council member Cora Heiser. She proposed forming the committee two months ago after finding herself on the wrong end of an argument when the Council voted to affirm its dispensary ban over the objections of several onlookers.
Some spoke up again last night, including one who said that his wife, suffering from cervical cancer, drives to Palm Springs twice monthly for weed just to kill the pain.
This time the council seemed open to revisiting the issue with Councilman Joel Klink even volunteering to serve. “I’d like to be on the ad hoc committee because I’d like to learn more about it.”
The committee’s second member, of course, will be Heiser, who made no bones about just how she feels. “What I’m looking for is… liberty.”
TWENTYNINE PALMS CITY COUNCIL AGREES TO LOOK INTO MEDICAL MARIJUANA
