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Sad fact is McD's could feed the huddled,cuddled "Big D" voters with the food they throw away because of government regs on food. Anyway poor people would want to sue them if they get sick from eating it so they can just go dumpster diving when they get the mun-cheese...
I am well aware. I was a manager there in college and that is exactly correct.
Whatever the cost, it isn't you paying it, unless you spend a lot of time in Berkeley, which I somehow doubt.
I'd like to posit something for your consideration - how about the idea that the residents of Berkeley are well aware of the costs to them, and have *chosen freely* to bear those costs?
Is Berkley forcing people to open medical marijuana shops?
BTW, I think the whole thing is silly but I don't live there so it's none of my business.
Seems funny that even those who feel they must jump in with some sort of defense of the government here in the end can't even really bring themselves to defend them.
“There are some truly compassionate cases that need to have medical marijuana,” Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates told The New York Times. “But it’s expensive. You hear stories about people dying from cancer who don’t have the money.”
Then why are they not forcing doctors and hospitals to treat them all for free, and what does this have to do with pot?
Whatever the cost, it isn't you paying it, unless you spend a lot of time in Berkeley, which I somehow doubt.
I'd like to posit something for your consideration - how about the idea that the residents of Berkeley are well aware of the costs to them, and have *chosen freely* to bear those costs?
It's not the residents paying for it, it's the business and if they had freely chosen to do it the city wouldn't have had to step in.
It's not the residents paying for it, it's the business and if they had freely chosen to do it the city wouldn't have had to step in.
The business might be giving it away but if they are required to give away 2% how is that not a 2% tax?
One would have to be pretty naïve to believe that 2% is not passed down to the customers.
They aren't doing anything like this anywhere else.
The cannabis thing aside, since it is a bit unique. This is from the ops article.
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Starting next summer, Berkeley residents who earn less than $32,000 per year (or $46,000 per family) and have a prescription for medical marijuana will be able to get it for free from one of the dispensaries operating within the city.
So what they are doing, according to the article is similar to other programs where poor can get access to other free prescription drugs. You are aware of these programs correct? How do you see it as different?
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