DL Open Thread Monday, Oct. 21, 2024
We’re at the stage of the presidential campaign/Trump unraveling where I expect he’ll be biting the heads off bats onstage by the end of the week. Or maybe he’ll just order JD Vance to do it. Either way, you’ll have to put up with two more weeks of punditry that’s worth nothing at all. And then they wonder why traditional media is dying. Uh, fellas, maybe it’s because you have thousands upon thousands of people sucking their thumbs over polling numbers and nobody reporting on things that have actually happened, as opposed to the very scary things that MIGHT happen. Who has the dough for that in these greedflationary times?
In another sign of the idiocy that rules our age, Wilmington’s planning commission will hold a special meeting tomorrow to set restrictions on cannabis dispensaries in the city. They have to hold a special meeting because two weeks ago they approved a 300-foot buffer zone around any cannabis business WITHOUT LOOKING AT A MAP. Once they did they realized that imposing such a limit would restrict sales to tiny areas downtown and at the riverfront.
The floor’s yours.
just a quick question – how can musk campaign with trump and give away money and it not be illegal?
If you’re allowed to bribe a Supreme Court justice you ought to be allowed to bribe voters.
Has anyone found out whether Mike Ramone will commit to using the Delaware State Police to assist in the mass deportations that Trump is promising?
Shouldn’t be too hard, what with all the license plate readers that were installed all over NCCO during the Meyer administration. You know all that info is doing to the nccpd “fusion center” with auto registrations being compared to the “non-citizen drivers licenses”
What about WPD? I am sure Carney will see that they assist Trump.
“Once they did they realized that imposing such a limit would restrict sales to tiny areas downtown and at the riverfront”
As if that wasn’t the intent to begin with. Cannabis is clearly meant to be treat for productive people, not the poors
Actually, it wasn’t, or they wouldn’t be revisiting it. What I find face-palming is their failure to look at the effect of the proposal before voting on it in the first place. It’s a basic-competence issue.
My understanding is that there is outside pressure to revisit the issue. Take a look at the unusually buffer distances and rules-there was a clear intent to craft the rules to have that particular outcome. They are only face palming because they got caught.
My read was that they don’t want a dispensary in an area visited by suburbanites, which is what those buffers dictated. They’d probably prefer one along Lancaster Ave. or Maryland Ave., somewhere not too upscale but not too scary.
I understand that line of thinking, but both Maryland Ave and Lancaster Ave are chock full of disqualifications. Suburbanites were already coming into the city to buy drugs, so better to stratify the haves from the haves from the have-nots by separating “our drugs” from “theirs.” Expect only the Janssenns of head shops, with all the cultural baggage and signals that would make most lower class people steer clear
Suburbanites aren’t coming into the city for cannabis. And I’ve never seen a dispensary that caters to any particular class, or race for that matter.
It sure is a competence issue. Maybe someone will bring a map with circles on it when they meet. It was quite a jump 100 ft to 300 ft
Reminds me a bit of the scene in the Godfather where the heads of the families are discussing where to allow the drug trade.
“So they can’t resist. I want to control it as a business. To keep it respectable, I don’t want it near schools, I don’t want it sold to the children. That’s an infamia. In my city, we would keep the traffic in the dark people, the colored. They’re animals anyway, so let them lose their souls.”
RE: cannabis regulations…Milford is discussing its regs too. There is a glimmer of hope Milford will be the lone exception to bans…course, this would be easier were the state to share revenues with the municipalities that approve of recreational dispensaries.
Suspect all locations will be based on revenue, that being as much as possible. As for the demographics of the locations they will be where the money is, followed by a token attempt at being fair and some within reach of most Delawareans. Also consider that Maryland is way ahead of Delaware and putting in new and proposed dispensaries rapidly. Here below the canal we always remember “Nothing good comes from Dover”, and see no reason to change.
If Delaware was as good at Substance Use Disorder treatment and harm reduction practices as they are at micromanaging this rollout (pun intended) a lot more folks would be in recovery or at least safe. Instead they distribute funds to suspect providers. Fortunately I smell a much feared smell deep in the Delaware Way, competent government! It will be an interesting transition.