California City Approves Public Office to Sell Medical Marijuana

[papau]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBVML1X9FE.html

California City Approves Public Office to Sell Medical Marijuana

The Associated Press

Published: Oct 26, 2005
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) - The city council has voted to create a municipal department to dispense medical marijuana and has promised to fight federal regulators in court over local control of the drug.

The panel voted 4-2 on Tuesday to create an Office of Compassionate Use, a five-member advisory board that would coordinate medical marijuana distribution within the city.

The program would help the city ensure that qualified patients get medically prescribed marijuana while local and federal authorities spar over the issue, officials said.

California law has allowed medical marijuana use since voters approved Proposition 215 in 1996, but the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this summer that the federal government can continue to prosecute users. <snip>

[Squatch]

1. My knee is killing me. I'm moving to CA.

[papau]

2. Plus it seems to make old farts like myself "smarter" :-)

I'd settle for just once again knowing where I put the keys every time I need to drive!

:toast:

:-)

[Sequoia]

13. Actually, I read a report last week that said cannabis adds

brain cells instead of destroying them. Doesn't work for short term memory apparently.

[yorgatron]

hooray for WAMM!!!

:bounce:

[AlCzervik]

3. i think the Santa Cruz city council also took a vote to impeach Bush

gotta love Santa Cruz.

found the link
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/09/09/state1602EDT0134.DTL

[mucifer]

4. If a doctor can order Dilaudid for a sick patient why cant

she order marijuana for a patient who is suffering?

[sui generis]

7. because smoking mary jane is a sin

a SIN I TELL YOU!!!!

There shall be no avoiding misery or pain, because that is a sin. In fact they'd rather Madame Dr. Shinyhalo did not prescribe any serious pain killers at all, or especially help anyone die with dignity instead of a lingering drooling brain dead comatose hospice patient rapidly bankrupting their survivors at thousands of dollars a day, since that would be avoiding god's divine retribution for the sins of one's life.

Yes this is certainly the party of smaller, less intrusive government, but only if you're a giant corporation trying to cook your books.

[Melsky]

10. Because you can't grow Dilaudid at home

don't want to interfere with those precious big pharma profits.

[sui generis]

5. Good for them -

can't wait to see dumbass give the order to invade and shell Santa Cruz and murder the insurgents there.

Many many more states should do this. Ultimately, it is quite republican of California (in the poli sci sense of the word) to do this. The administration should overwhelmingly approve, seeing as how the president was a beneficiary of someone selling compassionate crack for a number of years in college, after college, and WAY after college.

[Tace]

6. Cool -- But They Better Have The Kind

The real good kind. Otherwise, there'll still be a big black market for medical marijuana.

[Wise Doubter]

8. I just heard on the radio yesterday, or the day before, here in L.A. ....

that studies have shown marijuana use actually increases intelligence and cognitive behavior, any helps memory. It also greatly helps with depression and anxiety. I agree with the depression and anxiety part. I am still on the fence concerning the cognitive part. Although, in `94 I was in a head on collision which resulted in a 7-10 day coma with a TBI, but when I was released I started smoking dubbage from the gate.

Since then, I have obtained an AA, held administrative jobs and really do feel at full capacity(as much, as my plain `ol laziness will allow)

I do have some residual short term memory probs at times, but not generally.

The reason it is not legal, I feel, is because it would be too hard for the government to monopolize. Too many "Boot Leggers"

[Le Taz Hot]

9. A bumper sticker I saw recently:

"KEEP SANTA CRUZ WIERD"

I love this state.

LTH

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. Sanna Crooz has disadvantages too

For one, it's undogly expensive to live there — one of the most expensive areas in the country, expressed as a ratio of housing costs to per capita income. And traffic is brutal.

But, damn, I love the place. Great live music, good food, the beach and Boardwalk (and the Giant Dipper, an 81-year-old wooden roller coaster) and the only college in the country with the banana slug as its mascot. :bounce:

The medical marijuana mess in SC fired up about three years ago when the feds stormed in to shut down the clubs. The city council more or less told 'em to stick their fascist laws where the hemp don't grow.
:applause:

[Zhade]

12. Yep - the CC had med patients pick up their herb at city hall.

It was an AWESOME "fuck you" to the feds.

[Megahurtz]

14. Heh heh heh...Santa Cruz...

That's classic!:smoke: