MIAMI (CBSMiami) – An enormous victory for medical marijuana customers. A vote by the City of Miami Commission Thursday morning ends an extended authorized battle over whether or not dispensaries must be allowed.
“If you’re in the middle of Miami in rush hour traffic, it could take it could be 30-45 minutes,” Michael Montouri mentioned.
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Montouri has a medical marijuana card and for years he has needed to go away town to get his prescription stuffed.
“For me and a lot of people it’s anxiety related so dealing with that is extremely important,” he defined.
Soon he might be able to get medical marijuana nearer to the place he lives in Miami as a substitute of getting to journey to the following metropolis over.
“This was a precedent setting vote in the City of Miami where on a 3-2 vote we are allowing medical marijuana dispensaries in the city of Miami for the first time,” District 2 Commissioner Ken Russell mentioned.
Commissioner Russell favors giving sufferers an alternative choice to getting their medical marijuana, however different commissioners are in opposition to it.
“This is going to be all over, you’re going to see people smoking pot in the street,” District 4 Commissioner Manolo Reyes mentioned.
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Some commissioners have even raised issues about what they are saying are the drug’s dangerous results, however there isn’t a ordinance put in place to manage or ban dispensaries.
“The city has the option to do it, it has not done that,” mentioned Jeff Neiman, an lawyer for MRC44.
The firm that has been in an extended authorized dispute with town for a certificates of use, which was authorized to function at 90 NE eleventh St.
“We have our patients now some of them who cannot travel and have to find transportation this would make it easier for them,” Dr. Herve Damas informed CBS4.
Dr. Damas sees plenty of sufferers who’ve most cancers at his workplace in Little Haiti.
“I like the idea that there will be more access hopefully there will be more in communities that need them,” he added.
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MRC44 will nonetheless have to complete paperwork however for now it has the greenlight from Miami.