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St. Anne of the Sunset Parish and school are organizing against a cannabis dispensary that was approved by the San Francisco Planning Commission on Irving Street, in the heart of the local shopping district. The appeal of the Barbary Coast dispensary at 2161 and 2165 Irving is scheduled to be heard by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Dec. 5.
“We’re no
t in favor of more dispensaries, especially in family neighborhoods,” said St. Anne pastor Father Dan Nascimento, who along with Holy Name of Jesus pastor Father Arnold Zamora is opposing the marijuana dispensary in their Sunset neighborhood on Irving between 22nd and 23rd avenues.
St. Anne parish is also mobilizing opposition to the citywide legislation proposed that would open up more of the city to adult use cannabis dispensaries when California’s new law legalizing recreational marijuana takes effect Jan. 1. The citywide law was scheduled to be discussed and perhaps voted on Nov. 14 at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors regular meeting. The state law leaves it to the local cities and counties to regulate the cannabis dispensaries primarily through land use and public health laws. The proposed legislation would give medical marijuana dispensaries first priority to convert to adult use.
Full story at Catholic San Francisco.
Legalization of drugs of all kinds, is a terrible and unnecessary risk! Very ignorant thing to do! Instead– we need to educate future generations in good health, and help them to form good futures! Drugs of all kinds– are not necessary, and people need to be educated and guided towards good, healthy whollistic ways of living, each day– to include positive, healthy ways of recreation and relaxation! China was under the tragic grip of opium addiction, (which totally ruined their country!) from about the sixth or seventh century, all the way up to the 1950s, when the Red Chinese Communists claimed to finally have broken the power of opium addiction in their country!! Millions of lives were destroyed!!
Dude….If you can’t beat em…join em! Perhaps the cannabis store could help sponsor the Bingo night. Instead of selling beer during Bingo night, pot could be sold. Just sayin….
This is just another example of the social degradation occurring in our society. A pot dispensary near a Church and an elementary school? When people do not believe in God, they create one in their own image: in this case, the God of pleasure and stupidity! The human soul abhors a vacuum; we fill the hole in our soul with all kinds of garbage…drugs, porn, arrogance, possessions, hate, power…when we turn away from God.
I saw too many young men in my day searching garbage cans on college campuses after their brains had been burned out on drugs to have ever tried marijuana. Quitting regular cirgarettes was hard enough. Not fond of Betty Boop and troll doll prizes either. Want something better for my money.
This was in reply to JR’s remark.
In other words I agree with Mother Angelica about church Bingo when she said, “Don’t waste your time playing Bingo when you are older.”
If at a baby shower or to teach children phonics, fine, but it can become an addiction like anything else. Now off the computer before that becomes an addiction.
It would be great, if the city could have strong programs for kids, to direct their energies towards accomplishment of worthwhile goals, maturity, attainment of good social/emotional skills and self-confidence, and help to plan eventually, for a good and successful future! We don’t need more drug rehab centers, dope/alcohol wards at local hospitals, homelessness, and death on the streets– and we also don’t need any more dope problems, for the poor, struggling American home and family! American families and communities have suffered greatly, with the vast destructions due to drugs, since the 1960s!!
Minority kids from backgrounds of poverty and broken homes, especially need a great deal of help, to stay out of gangs, stay away from the lures of criminal activity– and stay away from drugs of all kinds! We need strong churches, and strong youth organizations, to hep these kids! Otherwise– many lives will continue to be lost, and there will just be more and more destructions to our communities!
Americans are so very BLESSED, to live in our good country! But many are also poorly educated, spoiled, selfish, materialistic– and very naive, about life! And especially– very, very naive, about the dangers of extremely grave mortal sin– including drugs!