Marijuana Mobile Facing Challenges, Moves

[SeniorBuzz]

Marijuana Mobile May Be Parked For Now

The medical marijuana mobile that recently rolled out of Norco and into unincorporated Riverside County to sell its wares illustrates the latest in legal entanglements between federal, state and local laws.

Stewart Hauptman said he and his 1985 Pace Arrow motor home are gone for good from Norco after police cited him for possessing drug paraphernalia and operating a dispensary. He has since moved to unincorporated Riverside County, where he says he feels safer because state law applies.

But Hauptman and his roving pot-mobile may not be driving on any more solid legal ground.

They are parked at the center of a conundrum created by conflicting federal, state and municipal laws that leave mobile collectives and a growing number of pot delivery operations that work like couriers in unfamiliar territory.

Federal drug laws prohibit the use and possession of marijuana.

State laws allow marijuana for medicinal use, sale that is not for profit and cultivation under legal limits. It also permits municipalities to regulate dispensaries.

But cities and counties across the state, including Norco and Riverside County, have local ordinances that ban dispensaries, according to city and county officials. San Bernardino County has a moratorium on them.

Legal experts are still arguing whether cities can ban dispensaries entirely through zoning laws that have kept many store-front businesses shuttered.

Mobile and delivery collectives are driving on uncharted roads, according to some experts.

Hundreds of delivery services across the state are up and running, dropping off marijuana to homebound people and a variety of locations. At least a handful of mobile units like Hauptman's are parking and opening shop.

The number of mobile and delivery business operating in the Inland area is unknown but online advertisements for them are on the rise.

And businesses could increase if voters approve an initiative on the November ballot to legalize pot possession.

For people like Hauptman, who operated in Norco for seven months and has faced no resistance since moving his motor home to Riverside County, he believes he is operating legally under state law.

He had planned to fight Norco and Corona zoning laws but said it proved too costly. So he agreed to leave this month after Norco officials attempted to file a temporary restraining order against him and the nonprofit Lakeview Collective that he and his wife operated there

"I would have had to mortgage my home to fight them," Hauptman said.

Beyond the legal conflicts, Hauptman said the issues are violating his right to help people in pain.

"This is so wrong. I got patients that have cancer," Hauptman said. "People need to hear about it."

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[Abja Roots]

It's like a taco truck for weed. Next thing you know the latinos pushing the ice cream carts down international blvd in oakland will be selling weed....oh wait they've been doing that in new york for years. I love it. Every hippie with an rv should do this.

 

[SeniorBuzz]

It's like a taco truck for weed. Next thing you know the latinos pushing the ice cream carts down international blvd in oakland will be selling weed....oh wait they've been doing that in new york for years. I love it. Every hippie with an rv should do this.

can you imagine what L.A. looks like ....every roach coach
is likely dealing

 

[CANNATOPIA]

Nice post SeniorBuzz. & Good Read.

 

[ibuster57]

Alcohol prohibition ended for most of the country close to a century ago. Their are still counties and towns that prohibit sales of liquor. If their ordinances have stood with a federally legal product don't expect much more with federally prohibited cannabis. People in those counties survive they just do things a little quieter. If you don't like whats going on in your county go to your local representatives and tell them so as you show them your voter registration. All it takes is a sufficient number of people to show up on election day to change your world.