Given how cranky and uptight Menlo Park residents seem to be, perhaps more cannabis (not less) would be a good thing.

What nonsense! Is there any real problem this is addressing? I really do not understand why the Menlo Park City Council wants to micromanage people in this way.

It’s a shame that the city Council is even considering a further moratorium or a ban. With 67% of Menlo Park voters supporting the legislation in 2016 how can they withhold what we have voted to approve? It makes zero sense that we have to use online delivery services because our city Council doesn’t have a back bone and thus isn’t allowing local residents to become retailers in a great new business market. I would much prefer to support a local business rather than a large online soon to become conglomerate. I just returned from Colorado and it is so nice to have people who understand this entire process and how far advance they are beyond us in Menlo Park. There is no reason why there couldn’t be a shop locally to provide for residents to get what is legally available in many areas around our state.

Would much prefer to see them ban smoking it outdoors (in back yards, for example, where neighbors can be affected) rather than growing it outdoors, which impacts no one.

> ...from Colorado and it is so nice to have people who understand this entire process and how far advance they are beyond us in Menlo Park.

Colorado just passed a BILLION in pot tax revenue recently.

Doesn't our City Council have more important issues to "Mull Over"? Geez, voters have spoken.
Leave this subject alone and focus your circle-jerk on city business! Anyone who has ever sat in on a council meeting, they clearly understand why we can't attract good people on the council.

"Doesn't our City Council have more important issues to "Mull Over"?"

Of course they do. This just allows them to pretend they are "doing something" about a "problem" that doesn't really exist. Thus allowing them to tell their constituents that they've been doing something to justify their existence.

Why are decisions like this made based on city staff recommendations? Why don't they survey residents or hire high-priced consultants like they usually do before making stupid decisions?

"Why are decisions like this made based on city staff recommendations?"

They're paying that staff a lot of money. Have to use them for something.