Lighting Up
Cutting through the haze of WeHo’s marijuana vote
Councilmembers tried to come up with dignified reasons to back the resolution. Some cited the $80,000 cost of a special election. Others talked about an unnecessary division of the community between pro-sheriff and pro-marijuana factions and an arms race between the two sides, with competitive campaign fund-raising. But Imler doesn’t buy the argument that the resolution was called to avoid a special election. A measure could have made it into the already scheduled November or March city elections. The real reason the resolution had to come about, he says, is that no one wants to run on the same ballot as a marijuana initiative. Imler spoke out at Monday’s meeting, warning of the undue influence of cannabis clubs and their lobbying groups, “piggybacking” on the successes of the medical-marijuana movement. He’s troubled by the proliferation of cannabis clubs in WeHo: “I kind of feel like Dr. Frankenstein, who created a monster that couldn’t be controlled.”
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