Reality Catcher: Marijuana Moratorium - How To Ignore The Voters And The Law

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Marijuana Moratorium - How To Ignore The Voters And The Law

By Steve Elliott in Chronic City

Dispensary moratorium: Latest political fad?

One by one, across California, the lights are winking out.

In city after city, town after town, patients who had dared hope they would at last have safe access to the medicine recommended by their physicians are having those hopes dashed by political cowardice, inertia, and the status quo.

In case you haven't noticed, medical marijuana is yet another front in the culture wars. Conservative hamlets which aren't yet ready for the 21st Century notion of patients being legally allowed to treat themselves with cannabis are turning off the light of hope for those who have already waited 13 years for the hope of Proposition 215 to become a reality.

Read the rest at Chronic City in the SF Weekly blog, "The Snitch":
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