Medical marijuana ordinance fast-tracked by LA City Council

Woohoo! All you druggies can go back to prison, and get out of our God fearing society. Time for decent folk to take a stand and fight the dismal tide!

Great. Los Angeles doesn't have a wall around the city limits, medical marijuana patients and dispensaries can just relocate to other cities.
All for something less dangerous than alcohol, that's regulated much more tightly.
I notice no one stops people from selling cigarettes right across from schools.

Buzz Oldbud

15 Oct 2009 4:02a.m.
As someone who has made a fortune selling pot since 1964, and has helped your kids stop being alcoholics and Republicans, I fear I will now have to retire with all my ill gotten gains, that I have not had to pay taxes on to support your illegal wars and the lazy cops who go after pot users instead of real criminals. There is so much misinformation going around on the issue that is really all about the culture war going on now on most major issues of the day. The right-wingers out there deserve to eat the crap they spill out their mouths as their kids now get high instead of drinking and smoking cig's. The people who really will hurt are the ones who have been making a killing off of the high prices they have been charging people for years for a plant that is so easy to grow that your grandma could grow it successfully in a flower box with alittle lite and water and fertilizer. Take the profit out of it and that will open the cops time to go out and find real bad guys who are molesting your children.
Stop feeding your face with fast foods and watching your waist grow like a pot plant, and read the facts available on the internet on the positive effects that common folks have reported with the use of cannabis and how it has changed their lives to the positive and how it just makes them just plain feel better. This issue won't ever go away no matter who you put in office as millions of common folk choose pot over pills now. How many times have you heard of a bar room brawl and when was the last time you heard of a pot room brawl? When was the last time you heard of someone who died from smoking to much pot? People wake up and smell the flowers, the voters won't stand by and let lazy cops bust us, and take our land, and make lazy lawyers take our hard earned money that supports the perverted legal system that makes money off the suffering of people who smoke or eat a flowers just to deal with lifes daily problems.

The funny thing to me is that a majority of Californians already favor legalizing it outright, 56-42 in the last poll. So why is the LA city council suddenly freaking out about it so much?

It's getting to seem more and more like the last days of the Berlin Wall (just think -- 20 years ago this year!) where the majority population is finally resisting long-lasting national tyrants like the DEA and the last local holdouts like the Cooley/Trutanich axis.

fast-tracked = ill-conceived

They've had YEARS to work on a rational plan - and the best they can produce is unworkable restrictions that go against the the very spirit of the plan.

How many sincerely debilitated, ill patients can actually "help" in a collective? Are the bed-ridden expected to get out an turn a shovel in order to gain access to medicine?

Oh, would that they require diabetics and heart patients to work in “collectives” before their prescriptions were filled. Then, we might see real change.

Shame!

Hmm, so is it "buy now while supplies last?"

Medical marijuana is often needed to keep people who are very weak alive. And their primary care partners are usually busy helping them, and maybe working too. And they are supposed to work in a collective and then hope there might be enough marijuana left over so that their loved one can have some?

This whole thing was cooked up by Carmen Trutanich the "envrionmental lawyer" who according to the LA Times represented at least one polluter, and LA County Republican DA Steve Cooley who pulls dirty tricks on election opponents according at least one important web source.

Both are probably looking to run for statewide office and therefore need a big shiny object to dangle in front of the eyes of the part of the electorate who don't have very large brains.

The people who are pushing for this, and the people who will vote for it should be removed from office. Overwhelmingly, this is not the will of the people. We should fire or remove politicians that don't care about the will of the people. By the way, if they can read, the compassionate use act does allow for sales, at prices intended to recoup cost. If the City's Attorney believes there has been some wrong doing he should audit dispensaries before closing all of them. The spirit of the compassionate use act was to provide safe access to medical marijuana. This move by the city would only push sales back on the street, and increase "illegal" activity.
This City Attorney needs to be removed from office. He doesn't, single handedly, have the authority to make up his own rules. Every dispensary should have a petition in it to remove this guy from office. Watch the vote at city council. Remove those who vote for this insane measure. Long live the WILL OF THE PEOPLE.

I am so tired of people looking down on the use of medical marijuana. Its really sad that people would rather us take xanax, vicodin, darvaset or any other over the counter drug which has worse side effects than marijuana. Of course there is always going to be illegal use but its the same with any perscription ddrug, this is why there should be laws against it. I am very happy that I do not live in LA county.

Medicinal? Recreational? Inspirational? Is the potential harm to the user or society really worth putting Americans in jail? The US Dept of Justice estimates that 10% of Americans use marijuana every year; if it were a significant source of harm, we'd see an epidemic of health effects. Aspirin is clearly more dangerous; even fast food is probably responsible for more health problems than marijuana.

Let's put the drug cartels out of business. Let's allow individuals to grow a little marijuana for personal use. Limit the size of the growing area or the number of plants, and put a small user-fee on it to cover administrative costs and leave a little something for education, health care, infrastructure…
One possibility:$100 per year for a permit to cultivate a dozen plants, something like a fishing license.

It's a win-win.

Who’s on board for this?

Moonshine Delight phuck you and your beliefs bitch, lucky I don't find you and kill your ass mother phucker

Moonshine Delight check yourself fool and go to Blockbuster and rent a MADD video. See the families that are destroyed by your white lightning. We have much more to spend our time working on than this, it is not even an issue. Please guys lets work on the real problems please.

Can anyone tell me how many reported overdoses from Marijuana such as with pills, alcohol, cocaine, Meth, crack, etc.
To date, none.

Can anyone tell me how many reports of violent crimes done while under the influence of marijuana, such as with pills, alcohol, cocaine, Meth, crack, etc.
To date, none.

Can you find medical evidence of phisical harm caused by the use of marijuana, such as with cigarettes, pills, alcohol, cocaine, Meth, crack etc.
To date, none.

Why is it that cigarettes, alcohol, and some pills are legal even though they have been prooven to kill, poison, cause brain damage and/or cause those who use them to harm others, yet marijuana has been proven to not cause harm to the body, and law inforcement history has show that 95% of users are non-violent, infact some mothers think it causes their kids to be lazy.
I sure hope that if I use marijuana, I don't kill someone with boredome or die from laziness.

To concerned parent
I agree with you but the US Government will wait as long as possible to legalize Marijuana because they make millions of dollars every year from busting average growers and users and they make billions of dollars every year from busting cartel growers
Marijuana is a money making machine for the DEA
and Marijuana arrests make money for all law-enforcement, Jails, Courts, Lawyers, probation, parole and "rehab".

Recommended read: The Emperor wears N Clothes, Author: Jack Herer

This book covers the documented world political history of Hemp/Marijuana dateing back to the 1500's to current.

To debate without being educated with facts is a fools quest to lose self respect
- MichaelAngelo