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Wow, I like that. Major cool dude!

What a bitch. Let the courts decide? How about let each state decide and keep the Feds out of it. It's a plant, which has caused ZERO deaths.

Let's talk about prescribed medication, alcohol, and cigarettes that have documented astronomical deaths to their credit.

To hell with big pharma and this asshat.

The only problem is marijuana is illegal by federal law. The California state laws contradict federal law.

Why not pass a law making these RAIDS illegal?
Arrest the DA?
Arrest the cops that participate?

I bet that DA would have lots of "friends" in the general population lock up.

Granted controlling our kids today is not an easy thing and most are spoiled brats getting what they want because parents are too dumb and ignorant to educate.

Need municipal codes on how this stuff should work. The underground movement would love to see medical marijuana fail and all dispensaries go away.

tough call but throwing the baby out with the bathwater is not the solution.

perhaps bonnie's scare tactics are the best way for now. she won't be well liked and she won't be in office for the long term.

It is a little disturbing that ones suffering the most are the ones who are still suffering and have been in pain through health issues. They have chosen the use of marijuana, they know their condition better than anyone else. They know what the day holds for them, with or without marijuana, and they choose marijuana. Yet we have a whole nation of politicans telling patients, doctors, and the general populations what role marijuana plays in our society. What if penicilian or morphine, or advil was treated the same as marijuana has been for the last 100 years. How is it that for the entire history of or civilization marijuana has only become taboo in the last 100 years? It is also scarry when society is run by people with guns and chains. It's a plant let it exist in society without such a negative sigma. It is harmless and far less dangerous to society than everything else combined. You deity didn't have anything bad to say about marijuana in any of their books. What are you fighting us or something within?

sure lets raid cancer patients homes for their marijuana stash.. forget about the crack heads and heroine addicts.

they wont ever stop the fight against marijuana but they sure like using our tax dollars to try. how about putting that money towards something useful.

Make Liquor ILLEGAL!!

Unless you live in San Diego you have no idea how bad its gotten. Bonnie Dumanis has an obsession with running interference for big pharm and other criminals. She has been covering up crime for the criminal set that runs San Diego for a long time. She was made the head of a task force investigating the murder of 40 or 50 prostitutes, most of whom were seen with SDPD police officers just before they're disappearance; and to nobody's surprise she used circumsatntial 'evidence' to pin ALL the murders on various other parties. She just spent the last 7 months persecuting me for speaking at a debate. I was kidnapped off the stage even though I was a qualified candidate for office, and even though I was not allowed to be excluded from the debate (because it was held at a public college using extensive government resources); and then I was put on trial, even though video tapes of the event (in the DA's possession) show that the arresting officer fabricated events surrounding my arrest. He can be seen taping my arrest (holding his recorder out in front of him), but that didn't stop Bonnie from suborning perjury. The DA and the PD department that kidnapped me, tried to hide dispatch tapes of the event, because they indicate Duncan Hunter jr. was one of the parties that instigated my kidnapping. The local media hates me, so they flipped-out when I showed-up at the event and they also got involved in instigating my arrest. Then the local TV channels that showed up and taped the debate, claimed their cameramen never actually turned on their cameras. The tapes show the involvement of Duncan Hunter's staff in formulating a rout to drive me from the stage, so they have disappeared. When I went to court I had a 21 page motion to compel discovery overruled without the cover ever being opened and one word of the motion read. The ACLU won't help me because I oppose globalism; so I learned how to be a defense attorney and I kicked Dumanis' butt in jury trial. It took the jury all of about 5 seconds to rule 12-0 in my favor. That's what happens when you charge someone with a crime and the statute says - on its face - that it can't be used to prosecute someone who speaks at a debate! She simply harassed me for 7 months and broke numerous laws (committing many, many felonies) just to stop me from running for office in 2010 against homophobe/neocon Duncan Hunter. Duncan Hunter's qualifications for office are he spent a few months loading phosphorous shells to bomb people in iraq with. He's made up his whole resume, but the SDPress won't bust him, and they won't tell anyone about my secret trial. My trial was a secret and it will remain so in San Diego because the San Diego Union's reporter was one of the poeple who instigated my arrest. You can't make this stuff up.

Look at pictures from 5 years ago and now, and its clear she's either on meth or diet pills. Her personality bears out the same conclusion. Her obvious meth or diet pill addiction may explain her irrational obsession with marijuana and my prosecution.

I live in SD and the people i know within that industry have told me the cops routinely "drop by" and "hang out". Its intimidation tactics at their worst.

The city is trying everything they can to thwart the laws. I agree that Dumanis needs to go, but its also the county board of supervisors that also has to be dealt with at the ballot box.

So here's the deal (and this is coming from a guy who's only 24):

Unfortunately marijuana dispensaries DO attract crime. A "Mobile dispensary" was making a delivery for a "patient" in the Bayview. Guess what happened- the Scion Xa the guy was driving got flipped over, literally, by a couple Samoan guys, who then robbed dude of all the weed and cash. And dispensaries do get robbed. So do people coming and going.

As far as people smoking weed, I really dont give a squat. However, whenever you have a large scale grow, you will attract crime. Nature of the beast so to speak.

As far as legally? Well, Fed law states Marijuana is illegal. Last time I checked, Fed law trumps state law. States can be more restrictive, but not more lenient. Otherwise we'd have a much more free gun trade in CA. So as far as the police "violating civil rights," last time I checked in Civics class, they're upholding federal law. Hey, sorry to everyone who wants to smoke weed, but it's still illegal, even if the State chooses to ignore it. Smoke all you want, but acknowledge the risk.

One last quip I gotta put out there: If you do smoke, do it responsibly. You smoke and drive, guess what, you're impaired, and subject to a DUI/DWI.

What the law specifically states is that marijuana is not legal in California, but that California has chosen, by the voters and supposedly enforced by the legislature, to not incriminate and/or prosecute patients who have an official recommendation by a certified doctor to use marijuana for their ailments. So yes, its not legal to own or sell marijuana, but IT IS STATE LAW that the state, counties and cities CANNOT prosecute a patient if they are following these guidelines. Therefore, no contradiction of federal and state laws, they are merely completely separate jurisdictions.

It also says cooperatives/collectives may be formed to grow and dispense medical marijuana to patients as long as they are incorporated as a nonprofit and follow nonprofit guidelines and a bunch of other unclear and in-concise rules and regulations. This doesn't mean that those running the collectives cannot make money because the guidelines also specifically state providers of medical marijuana are allowed to be paid for their time and effort, as they or anyone else should be, especially if they are doing it full time.

Thats not to say they're weren't any illegal activities goin on in some of the collectives, but many of them were legit. Its not their fault the laws and guidelines are unclear.

In response to Madness - the FDA has not yet approved cannabis for anything because the DEA has obstructed each and every attempt to have it properly classified as a Schedule II or III drug. There have been several rulings by administrative law judges on this issue and each time the DEA steps in and thwarts the progress of legitimate science.

Not only does the federal government recognize the medicinal value of marijuana, they have obtained a PATENT relating to the neuroprotective properties of it. The US is just getting all its ducks in a row so when we do re-classify it, the government will be first in line to profit from it. It is so unbelievably sad how so many people buy whatever garbage the government spews out and assume it to be FACT without using logic or reason to evaluate the facts.