Pubdate: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 Source: Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA) Copyright: 2012 Steven Ruddick Contact: http://www.pe.com/localnews/opinion/letters_form.html Website: http://www.pe.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/830 Author: Steven Ruddick STOP WAR ON MEDICAL POT Local cities think they can use zoning to ban medical marijuana dispensaries ("Medical marijuana dispensary ban upheld again," Dec.3). But the majority of Californians voted to approve Prop. 215, legalizing medicinal pot, and local politicians should not have the after-the-fact power to ban it. The California Supreme Court also has ruled that medical marijuana patients have the same right to obtain their legal medicine as other patients do to obtain their prescription medication. The same legal principle should hold true of San Bernardino County's indoor-only cultivation policy ("Pot dispensaries banned," March 22, 2011). It should be an unconstitutional amendment of Prop. 215 because the people didn't approve it. The power of the people is stronger than the people in power. Steven Ruddick Angelus Oaks - --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D