How dare you use the Vista Veterans Memorial Park wall in Vista as a prop to mislead voters?

THE VETERANS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM DOES NOT RECOMMEND MARIJUANA. It is the largest healthcare system in the USA with 1,243 facilities. The budget is $198.6 BILLION and pot is not part of their delivery of care solutions to the nine million veterans. If it worked, they would use it. It seems that the $100,000 -$500,000 pot proponents are spending, does not include fact-finding. As a Veterans under VA Healthcare, I ask, how dare you stoop so low to use us as just a prop?

They also insult all of us by saying it was written by local Vistans. That is not what clear source documents indicate (Malibu and Palm Springs). They further state that Z prohibits pot shops in residential areas when the measure states that they can be in mixed use zones (commercial on the first floor and residential on the above floors). They can be real close to you.  Is 600 feet close enough to cause concerns?

They say weed shops cannot be by schools.  The distance written in the measure is 600 feet. Even more troubling, pot shops can be right next to parks, churches and treatment facilities.

The additional tax revenue will be offset by enforcement costs, creating crime, creating additional addiction issues, driving away perspective businesses, keeping shoppers away, and driving down housing prices where they are located. See what happened to San Diego!

 

VOTE NO ON Z!

 

 

 

Some people believe certain pot components can cure specific illnesses. Others may think marijuana is helpful for covering up the pain. Their confidence is based on anecdotal feedback or personal experience. There is NO SCIENTIFIC STUDY SUPPORTING MARIJUANA. A few just like to get high. Others just want freedom from government control. If you do not have specific reasons for supporting Z, please read on or just say no!  It is bad for Vista.
Proponents use a 2017 city pot survey to support Z. However, the survey qualifiers were not satisfied in the 2018 Measure Z. It is apples and bananas. (see blog http://noonz2018.home.blog – Debunking the Vista Marijuana Poll).
       Candidates who are proponents of Z, state the high cost of closing illegal storefronts in Vista as a justification for legalizing them. The city of San Diego did eventually shut down many illegal storefronts, after approving 17. (get that, 17 approved for San Diego and 11 for Vista, 14% of  their population). However, what occurred was a plethora of illegal black market delivery services (100), which they have not been able to shut down, because they are run from garages or are mobile. The pot industry is the biggest complainers as they are losing out on revenue to the illegal delivery services, that charge less. San Diego is also losing out on tax revenue to the illegal delivery services. Actual enforcement costs shifted from closing illegal storefronts to chasing illegal delivery services, without much success. (see Union Tribune 12/ 16/2017). San Diego head of narcotics said “it took eight years of ups and downs to shrink the number of illegal shops from a high of more than 300 to only two”.  Vista costs can be shifted or even greatly increased, but definitely not eliminated.  Will Z provisions even prevent Vista from enforcing reasonable rules and closing bad dispensaries?
Many view pot as addictive and progressive to the hard stuff. Many see  as a freedom issue, to let people do what they want. If it did not impact the entire city of Vista, I may agree. However, too many just do not know and vote on mailers, signs and with people, they trust on either, without considering the many negative side effects.
70% of the California cities have rejected pot shops. None of Vista’s neighboring cities have approved dispensaries. The experiences of the cities that have approved pot shops are still being played  (see San Diego below).

MEASURE Z DOES THE FOLLOWING:
>Places shops 600 feet from public schools.
>Can put them next door to parks, churches, treatment facilities, and daycare facilities.
>Requires minimum license requirements, making it easier to get a license for pot than for a bakery.
>Limits what the city can do in enforcement, making them under their own control.
>Only requires one parking space, which will negatively impact the neighborhood.
>Allows pot shops on the first floor of a building with apartments above them in mixed use zones.
>Permits felons to own and work in a pot shop if it has been over four years since the felony.
>Can put them next to your house, or in your neighborhood, based on zoning policies.
>Would make Vista a magnet city for the pot users in San Diego, Orange and Riverside Counties.
>Allows 18-year-olds to get the pot with a prescription. Many f them are still in high school.

In their mailers, the pot industry classifies these as safe. Sound safe to you? Are you or a member of your family a marijuana user? Are you confident that really bad things won’t happen with eleven pot shops attracting additional traffic and out-of-town users? Do you trust the pot shops to discipline themselves? Do you want your elected representatives to decide by conducting public meeting’s, so you can participate, then vote no on Z? Are you aware that thirty-three percent of edibles fail the state testing standards?  Z does not include testing facilities in Vista.
Can you even consider accepting more pot shops in Vista than there are Starbucks?
I plead with you to vote NO ON Z to keep Vista safe from pot, and all the problems that come with it from inside and from outside.
IF YOU DO NOT KNOW, VOTE NO.

If you are still undecided, please go to http:/noonz2018.home.blog and review the following:
>Debunking the Vista Marijuana Poll.
>n the year 2015 if Z is still alive.
>Daily Dose – Measure Z. (nine daily visuals)
>Show Me the Money.
>They’re Back!
>My Mission is Not to Oppose Marijuana.
>Why Vote Against Incumbents in Vista, When Positive Things are Happening?
>The Reasons to Vote for Incumbents in Vista.
>Z in Shadow Ridge.
>What does the medical industry say about marijuana?
>Three biggest reasons to sink Measure Z.

>If you don’t know, Vote No. When you do know, you will vote no.