I admire the mayor and certain members of the City Council for their quixotic efforts to eliminate marijuana from the city of Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Having made it difficult for patients whose suffering would be relived by their prescriptions, they now propose to ban any regulated legal retail sales within the city limits as well.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I would suggest that we put the issue to a vote, but we already have, and retail sales won. Kudos for usurping democracy and the will of the people.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
However, it is my understanding that a primary mission of the council is to promote new businesses. We have an opportunity here to open several, with a ready market sure to succeed. But Kent would rather not have these jobs, nor the B&O taxes, nor the rent of retail space, nor the related auxiliary business, sending this legal revenue to neighboring municipalities.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Toward what end?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Today as I walked through the streets of downtown I saw posters for a wine walk event endorsed by the city, so it can’t be to protect the citizens from recreational drug use.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I remember how earnestly (former) Mayor Jim White attempted to prevent the opening of a gay bar downtown. The bar opened anyway, and from the first day until the last when its doors closed of their own volition, not one prophecy of doom was fulfilled.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Within a few short years Kent will again realize how foolish it has been on the issue of marijuana, so I propose an alternative slogan for the city. Instead of Bringing the World Home, I would suggest, Behind the Curve in the Green River, and perhaps as an official bird of the city, an ostrich, with its head in the sand.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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