County Becomes 42nd In California To Issue MMJ Patient ID Cards After years of delay, Ventura County has fully complied with the state mandated "Medical Marijuana Program Act", which changes the way the county and its municipalities regard medical cannabis and the estimated 10,000 seriously ill patients who require it. Indeed, as early as December 7, an intrepid Web voyager could find her way to a page on the Ventura County Public Health site titled "Medical Marijuana Program." The ordinary-appearing page provides information for qualified Ventura County medical cannabis patients regarding how to obtain the state-issued Patient's ID Card. [continues 368 words]
OAK PARK -- Barbara Ransby has replaced logic with emotion in her protests of Michigan's pilot program for administering drug tests to new welfare applicants (Commentary, June 11). She asserts that the welfare application process discriminates by class and race. What an illogical notion it is to give the poor class welfare and not the rich class. But she fatally stumbles when she argues that drug tests for new welfare applicants presumes all poor people are drug users. By using a radar gun on the highway, does a state trooper presume everyone is speeding? Further, is it inappropriate to punish a truck driver who arrives at work drunk? No on both accounts. [continues 135 words]
