Feds try to claim more marijuana dispensaries than Starbucks in SF: They're lying

[Newsjock]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

There are more medical marijuana dispensaries in San Francisco than Starbucks Coffee shops. Or at least, so says the Office of National Drug Control Policy in a posting on its official blog, pushingback.com.

... But their numbers don't add up, and medical marijuana types are peeved.

First, the map is not click-able, so you can't zoom in to determine exact addresses. Even so, there appear to be dispensaries listed in highly improbable places, like two on Leavenworth between California and Clay streets -- a section at the top of Nob Hill sporting Victorians, a couple of corner stores and a laundromat, but no apparent pot for sale.

... "This is information that is readily available to any teenager," said Rafael Lemaitre, a spokesman for the Office of National Drug Control Policy. He called the state's medical marijuana law "essentially a fraud that's been perpetrated on the people of California" because of the potential for abuse.

... Bottom line though: the data the feds turned over listed less than 71 actual marijuana dispensaries in San Francisco, meaning Starbucks wins.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cityinsider/logout?blogid=55&entry_id=32650&tsp=1

[MindPilot]

1. "This is information that is readily available to any teenager,"

As if "Any Teenager" could just wander in to one of these places and buy some weed. You know like they can buy booze at any Vons or ciggies at any 7/11. Oh wait, they can't.

He called the state's medical marijuana law "essentially a fraud that's been perpetrated on the people of California". Excuse me that is a law that was passed by the state government legitimately representing the will of the people. Methinks Rafael has it backward; his "war on drugs" is the real fraud.

[Cassius23]

2. So let me get this straight....

There is a place to buy pot....and across the street..

is another place to buy pot.

With apologies to Lewis Black.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9iMgSNrwv4