Pot dispensary says they are "grandfathered"

While reading Kevin Thompson's article regarding the pot dispensary locating across Dixie Highway and 200 feet from the Academy of Positive Learning, this is what Chief Executive Gregg Roberts of Modern Health Concepts said: "While state law says medical marijuana dispensaries must be 500 feet from schools..the site is “grandfathered in” because the company won approval before the state enacted the law."

What comes to my mind is our Heights referendum for downtown Lake Worth. If the medical marijuana dispensary is grandfathered in, why wasn't our vote? The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice but it was totally discarded and thrown down the toilet in Lake Worth thanks to bad politics and commissioners who were determined to get their way. The hell with the voters.

If you recall, our city attorney, Glen Torcivia, gave a legal opinion agreeing with the majority commission that wanted higher buildings in our downtown. He determined that our heights referendum election held on March 12, 2013 was null and void due to HB 537 signed by Governor Rick Scott three months after the election.

People say the answer is to "vote the bums out." That's about the only solution, however, the longer they are in, the harder it is to get them out of power. Politics is corrupt. I think it's time for term limits.