They delivered slick door hangers today, on top of last week’s slick mailers, proclaiming misleading information.  How much is the weed industry going to spend?  Today’s  mailers were paid for by Jdau Management of Oceanside.  Their site lists that they have been in business for three years, have four employees, have an annual revenue of $201,100.  Is the CEO, Jason Griffith a Vista resident? Are they just a front for the pot or cigarette industry?   Last weeks mailer was from Palm Springs. Where is the Vista connection behind all of the money?

Misleading statements

protect Our Kids by Prohibiting Dispensaries Near Schools and Youth Centers.  Measure Z allows them within 500 feet of a school.  Is that protecting kids?

place a limit on the total number of medical dispensaries.  That number is 11 based on present population! That could mean 11 in South Vista business park, as long as they were 500 feet apart, or it could mean two by each high school, one by the transit center and one by the skate parks.

prohibiting dispensaries in residential areas.  The distance is 600 feet away.  That is about ten minutes walk from your neighborhood. Is that far enough to make you feel safe and out of the reach of negative real estate impacts?

providing Millions in revenue.   And what will be the additional cost for policing and enforcement.  The net will probably be negative. Besides, is the safety and well-being of your family for sale?  Is protecting the value of your property important?

only medical cannabis dispensaries.  Sure thing, at first. How long before another measure is paid for by the industry to make them recreational?  Next election?  Will recreational use cause the underground illegal dispensaries to pop up?

the 8000 people who signed the petition did not have the full measure in front of them. The total measure is 25 pages long.  Did you read it or review the City Attorney’s impartial analysis?  Are you voting on anecdotal information?

1.The measure on the ballot is five lines and includes “until ended by the voters”.  We would need an election to end it, not by petitioning our elected representatives.

2-The measure states that dispensaries would be located in commercial, industrial park and mixed use zoning.  Look at the city zoning map and see how close to you these could be.   They do not tell you where they could be.

3.Did the signers of the measure know the measure limits city control? According to the City Attorney’s impartial analysis, “once licensed, no criminal or public nuisance action can be initiated against a licensed dispensary operating within the limited rules set by the initiative ordinance”.  They set their own rules in the measure, if passed.

4-The measure would only require one parking space, while the city would require 5 for this type of commercial enterprise.  Your neighborhood would give up valuable parking.

5-The city would be “required to issue a certificate of occupancy and business license to a marijuana dispensary if it meets its minimum requirements….. All of the other business license’s have protections based on the license, not minimum consumer and neighbor protections.

6-“The city would be prohibited from imposing any additional operating requirements on the businesses.”  This according to Our City Attorney. 

7-The rules would allow a dispensary to operate from 9 A. M. to 10 P. M. daily.

8-An individual would be eligible to own or to work at a marijuana dispensary if the individual has not been convicted of a felony or if the felony convictions are more than four years old.

9-The store fronts would have no minimum distance from sidewalks.

A “NO” vote means you do not want to authorize at lease eleven storefront medical marijuana dispensaries in Vista, based on the current city population, and you do not want the industry to set the rules.   If you want to be part of any decision-making, a “NO on Z” vote means you prefer only three delivery stores, such as Measure BB, which would provide access to medical cannabis.