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Man wields sword at Carlsbad motel By City News Service
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CARLSBAD — Police arrested a 33-yearold Lomita man at a Carlsbad Village motel Oct. 22 after he brandished a samurai sword at paramedics responding to an unrelated medical emergency. Police were dispatched around 9:40 a.m. Sunday to the Carlsbad Village Inn, at 1006 Carlsbad Village Drive, according to the Carlsbad Police Department. There were no details available
CARLSBAD — The City Council unanimously approved an ordinance allowing medical cannabis delivery services in the city starting in 2024, but placed regulations on where and RANCHO how those businesses can operate. SFNEWS While personal medical and recreational use of marijuana is permitted in Carlsbad, all retail cannabis activities have been prohibited since 2017 after state legislation left cannabis regulation largely up to local governments. However, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 1186, or the Medicinal Cannabis Patients’ Right to Access Act, into law in September 2022, preventing cities from limiting the number of businesses authorized to deliver medical cannabis. The law, which goes into effect Jan. 1, 2024, also states that cities are not allowed to limit the operating hours, sales, and types or quantities of medical cannabis at such businesses. Carlsbad’s blanket prohibition, which essentially limited the number of authorized delivery businesses to zero, did not comply with the law. However, SB 1186 will not impact the city’s ban on cultivation, manufacturing, storing, testing, retail sales, retail delivery and all other aspects of recreational cannabis activities. In keeping with the city’s opposition to cannabis operations within the city, the new ordinance will exercise the right to impose “reasonable regulations” on delivery services based on zoning codes, licensing requirements, taxes, security or public health and safety requirements.
concerning the unrelated medical emergency. Officers tried to make contact with the man, later identified as Eliot Rauk, through the door of his motel room, where he allegedly threatened to kill them while holding a handgun reported to have been seen through the room’s window, police said. Some areas of the motel were evacuated, with the Carlsbad SWAT TURN TO MOTEL ON 16
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One year after pausing multiple school bus routes due to a driver shortage and implementing a sign-on bonus as a hiring incentive, the Vista Unified School District is still struggling to meet student transportation needs. Story on 7. Courtesy photo
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