Court Overrules People It's a sad day for people like me when the state's highest court overrules the will of the people to obtain lawful medical marijuana ("Local governments can ban dispensaries, court rules," May 6). I have a terminal case of liposarcoma. Thank God, I can still go to the drugstore and get my morphine and Xanax. I can't get medical marijuana to help ease my pain and suffering, but I can get hard narcotics. How wrong is that? The court's ruling is an insult to Prop. 215 and SB 420, which made legal having access to medical marijuana in adequate quantities. [continues 65 words]
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 [end]
San Bernardino County used junk science and old sin-laws to ban medical marijuana dispensaries as a "vice" industry because such things might have "adverse secondary" effects (increased vice). The Inland Valley Drug-Free Community Coalition is against all sinful and immoral behavior, like smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol, or watching an adult porn movie in the privacy of your own home. When IVDFCC says "drug-free" they mean no tobacco or alcohol or caffeine for anybody, too. That amounts to IVDFCC imposing their morals on me. [continues 276 words]
