Olney Mayor Ray Vaughn
OLNEY–Despite the fact that no decisions have been made by the city council to approve a medical marijuana facility in ISP District 12, some citizens of Olney felt the need to voice their concerns to the council of the looming prospects that could occur if such a facility were established in their district.
At last night’s (July 28) Olney city council meeting, several people were in attendance to let the council know how they felt a marijuana operation plant would impact their community if one were established there, but what some of the people were saying, others felt was a bit overblown and mistook the July 14 meeting as an approval of such a facility.
In fact all that took place at the July 14, council meeting was the “If” factor and possibility of a medical marijuana facility being established in District 12, a prospect for which many cities are vying, as the facility will bring jobs to the area.
The council gave approval for Richland County Development Council director Courtney Yockey to “look into” more information in regards to the facility.
Several people were able to get their point in at the July 28 meeting and began to say that children will think it is “okay” to use marijuana and that Olney would be “like Chicago”….not realizing the facts that the facility would be used to grow medical marijuana and would not be used as a place to purchase medical marijuana, as well as the bottom line fact that the marijuana would be used for medical purposes, not recreational use. As it was pointed out at the July 14 meeting, the facility would be heavily guarded and would go by very strict guidelines.
Debra Vaughn, one of the many members of the audience in attendance during Monday’s meeting, who voiced her opinion on the matter of having a medical marijuana facility in District 12.
Mayor Ray Vaughn stood his ground firmly, answering the questions of the people in attendance who, towards the end of the meeting, began to appear a bit hostile. Vaughn stated that he will work with RCDC to see to it that any economic opportunity that arises will be taken into consideration and looked through.
“I would like to see Olney flourish and rise economically,” Vaughn told the group.
“So in other words your going to work with the devil himself,” said Debra Vaughn, one of those attending to voice opposition.
The demonstration outlines the mentality still in existence among people who refuse to educate themselves on the multitude of uses of medicinal marijuana, which is more often used in the form of concentrated hemp resin as opposed to smoking, in order to control pain, spasms, seizures, complications from multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, neurological disorders and, in the strongest doses (known as Phoenix Tears), has been shown to not only successfully treat cancer, but in many cases, to cure it altogether, including rubbing the oil on melanomas, not taking the oil to “get high”…so those who are clueless to these facts merely show that the state’s brainwashing that “pot is an evil drug” for so many decades (incidentally, at about the same time that empirical studies were emerging showing cannabis oil was successful in curing cancer) has been hugely successful, hence the crowd at the Olney city meeting last night.
To get the full details on the July 28 Olney city council meeting be sure to pick up a copy of the next issue of Disclosure on stands August 12.