Pubdate: Sat, 12 Jun 2010
Source: Hi-Desert Star (Yucca Valley, CA)
Copyright: 2010 Hi Desert Star
Contact:  http://www.hidesertstar.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3921
Author: Terry Millen, Morongo Valley
Bookmark: http://mapinc.org/topic/Dispensaries

DISPENSARY BAN DOES GREAT DISSERVICE TO ILL

Much has been said of the medical marijuana issue in Yucca Valley. 
People of Yucca Valley, it really comes down to this. On June 15, 
your town council is going to vote an illegal and unconstitutional 
permanent ban on medical marijuana dispensaries in Yucca Valley, 
which means there will be no access for patients to lawful medicine 
of choice in the high desert and Morongo Basin areas.

Fact: Medical marijuana is legal for use in California by lawful vote 
of the people and proper enactment by stage legislature. The 
so-called loyal opposition claim the law is full of loopholes, while 
in fact the state legislature, in great wisdom, specifically designed 
the law to require local government to properly regulate what is a 
ultimately a local issue. It's local because it affects you and me 
regardless of how we think and feel on the issue. More importantly it 
affects the civil rights of each and every one of you.

What has happened is your town government has effectively cut and run 
on the issue. Now with three seats up for election, the incumbent 
group can force a majority decision to close down the only high 
desert dispensary available to our many cancer-stricken and 
chronically ill people.

So now, at the June 15 meeting, they are going to enact an ordinance 
and fully ban dispensaries in Yucca Valley on absolutely no fact 
except their group inability and failure to properly regulate and 
govern in and for the benefit of the people of Yucca Valley. And to 
the last sentence I would like to add the benefit of the many 
thousands who live in the immediate area whose dollars truly support 
Yucca Valley.

* It seems to me the local cooperative has made every rational effort 
to work with this group of people who steadfastly have refused to do 
their job and properly regulate a lawful business operation. What 
heroes you politicos could have been to our seniors and ill people 
who daily rely on this legal method of medication. But then what can 
you expect from a group of dedicated cut runners, true Republicans, 
leaving the city in a financial and moral disaster?

Doesn't anybody in this town have the guts to stand and run for the 
moral majority on the issue, or are you going to let your civil 
rights be trampled into the dust of the town budget?

I encourage all to attend and participate in this issue so vital to 
health of our community.
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MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom