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PASADENA’S ‘WAIT AND SEE’ APPROACH GOES UP IN SMOKE
Staff will prepare regulations to legalize commercial cannabis Gus HERRERA
report, proponents in favor of allowing commercial cannabis activity initiated both a referendum and a ballot initiative in December 2017 challenging the city’s ordinance which bans commercial marijuana activity. The referendum ultimately fell short of acquiring the necessary votes, according to the Los Angeles Country Registrar of Voters, but the initiative still has a chance to be placed on the November ballot, if it achieves the requisite number of signatures. City staff is concerned by the proponents’ initiative because, if successful, it would not only allow commercial cannabis activity, but also have the potential
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t their latest regular meeting, the Pasadena City Council directed staff to prepare a comprehensive framework of marijuana regulations that would potentially allow commercial cannabis businesses to operate in the city, if approved by voters in June. The move, which stands in stark contrast to council’s November 2017 decision to take a “wait and see” approach to marijuana legalization, is a direct response to recent efforts by cannabis proponents to challenge Pasadena’s current prohibition on commercial cannabis. According to city staff’s
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City staff will now scramble to beat commercial cannabis proponents to the first punch by presenting their own set of marijuana regulations to the voters in June. If approved, commercial marijuana activity will be legalized through the city’s own set of rules.
54 Cats Rescued by Humane Society in East Pasadena Home
FORMER MAYOR OF PASADENA SAYS ONLY JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CAN FIX POLICE DEPARTMENT Staff Writer editorial@beaconmedianews.com
In an open letter sent to community members, leaders and media, a local attorney and former mayor of the city of Pasadena said he thinks the justice department should
investigate the Pasadena Police Department in the wake of the latest highly publicized incident, in which a young man’s leg was broken during a police beating. The police allege the suspect, Chris Ballew, resisted arrest. William M. Paparian, Esq., said that “There’s a thin line
between fiction and reality. In Pasadena, unfortunately, that line happens to be blue.” Paparian maintains. “The vast majority of the men and women of the Pasadena Police Department conduct themselves with the SEE POLICE PAGE 4
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City officials were notified of foul odors in a house by a concerned neighbor in the 1800 block of Corson Street in Pasadena on Tuesday afternoon. Pasadena Human Society
responded to the complaint; made contact with the resident and ultimately removed 54 cats from the single family home and transported them to the Pasadena Humane Society for evaluation. A small army of Humane Society and Animal Control officers and trucks pulled up
on Corson Street to carefully remove the felines. Officers armed with a rescue cages carefully draped with towels (to keep the cats calm during the ordeal) saved all the cats over a period of several hours. Almost one year ago to SEE CATS PAGE 4
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