Out, damned pot!

Another municipality has blocked medical dispensaries for marijuana by adopting a “moratorium.”

On Jan. 7, the Henderson City Council voted to direct its staffers to reject business license, building permit, or land use applications for dispensaries in the next six months. Henderson is Nevada's second largest community. State voters approved medical marijuana use 13 years ago, a policy choice that was stymied for more than a decade by the Nevada Legislature's failure to provide for methods patients could obtain the substance. When the legislators finally acted, local governments became the problem.

Las Vegas has taken a similar stance to Henderson, while Clark County is moving ahead with dispensaries (“Taking their time,” RN&R, Jan. 2).