Pubdate: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 Source: San Diego City Beat (CA) Copyright: 2006 San Diego City Beat Contact: http://www.sdcitybeat.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2764 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n972/a08.html Author: Margaret Dooley SUPPORT THE SICK AND DYING Thank you for your support of medical marijuana patients in San Diego ["Editorial," July 26]. You are right that dispensaries need to be regulated here, as they are in other counties and cities in the state. Unfortunately, our county has shirked its legal and moral responsibilities to ill and dying San Diegans who depend on medical marijuana for relief. The City Council cannot do the same. Council members have been supportive in the past, and that support is needed again now. Medical marijuana patients have asked the City Council to consider a resolution instructing city police to enforce local medical-marijuana laws (not the federal prohibition). The resolution also asks the city to come back to talk about regulations for a medical-marijuana distribution system within city limits. And, when the City Council returns in September, it should reassemble the medical-marijuana task force. Margaret Dooley, San Diego coordinator, Drug Policy Alliance - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake