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  • But, what it appears Councilmembers Zine and Ed Reyes are proposing to do is simply impose some type of restrictions based on zoning laws, and here's why: On June 06, 2006 the County lifted a morituorium on Med Marijuana dispensaries and instituted County regulations that was the checkered flag for dispensaries to pop up in every knook and cranny in the City including close to schools and residential homes.

    UPDATE: City Wants To "Regulate" Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, Not Close Them 2006

  • But, what it appears Councilmembers Zine and Ed Reyes are proposing to do is simply impose some type of restrictions based on zoning laws, and here's why: On June 06, 2006 the County lifted a morituorium on Med Marijuana dispensaries and instituted County regulations that was the checkered flag for dispensaries to pop up in every knook and cranny in the City including close to schools and residential homes.

    Archive 2006-11-01 2006

  • And they flew to the fields and forests with songs of thanks to the good knook who had rescued them.

    American Fairy Tales 1887

  • But such was not the case with Popopo, the knook we are speaking of.

    American Fairy Tales 1887

  • The astonished birds at once obeyed, and when they had soared away into the night air the knook closed the door and continued his wandering through the streets.

    American Fairy Tales 1887

  • Popopo was a kind-hearted knook, but on witnessing all this misery, caused by his own ignorance of the ways of humans, he straightway wished himself at home, and so left the poor women to recover as best they could.

    American Fairy Tales 1887

  • So he exercised a charm that drew all the mice from the cellar and placed them upon the hats in the glass case, where they occupied the places the birds had vacated and looked very becoming -- at least, in the eyes of the unworldly knook.

    American Fairy Tales 1887

  • So one would suppose that a knook who might gain anything he desired by a simple wish could not be otherwise than happy and contented.

    American Fairy Tales 1887

  • The office of every newspaper and magazine in the city was visited by the knook, and then he went to other cities, until there was not a publication in the land that had not a "new fashion note" in its pages.

    American Fairy Tales 1887

  • Locks and bolts made no difference to a knook, and he saw as well in darkness as in daylight.

    American Fairy Tales 1887

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  • a small corner, maybe of a house, often used for breakfast and catnapping.

    They sat in the small knook of the house and read all afternoon.

    September 25, 2009