San Diego, No Longer a Haven for Marijuana Buffs
July 24, 2006
The article has moved here
For the past 10 years living in San Diego, CA was hectic, expensive, and the traffic sucked almost to Los Angeles standards. But the herb was good. So good in fact that having traveled the country and west Canada I would make the claim that it has the best marijuana this side of the pond.San Diego is home to hundreds of indoor growing operations, many medical marijuana co-ops, and dozens dispensaries. It has the finest genetics around, G13, Super Silver Haze, Original Blueberry, and its local favorites, Hogsbreath (The HOG) and Bull Ryder (The BR).
Make that WAS home. The Board of Supervisors launched a lawsuit against California Health Code 11362.5, or Prop 215 as it is more commonly known by the citizen initiated proposition that passes in 1996. Since then the DEA has shut down all dispensaries, raided dozens co-ops and started collecting information on patients and doctors.
Now San Diego, a rooted Republican stronghold and a leading city in the Christian Dominion squad, is a place for terror. Patients like myself who used to be able to walk into a clean, secure location, present identification and a doctor signed and embossed recommendation, buy our medicine and go home must now turn to the criminals and gangs who proliferate the dug culture.
Once again the people who will be getting the most benefit from this are the violent thugs, thanks to our Board of Supervisors and Federal Government.
I know an old man of 72 who smokes marijuana to fight off cancer, which has worked better than the chemotherapy according to him. He hasn’t done chemo in 6 months and I have personally watched this man’s tumor shrink from cannabis use.
He was mugged yesterday in University Heights, and shot over $60 for his medicine by a gang of young Hispanics after they agreed to supply him with Marijuana. John, as I will call him, was a happy, carefree old man. He had a bristling mustache and loved to tell jokes.
When is this insanity going to end? Cannabis has been proven over and over to be harmless and to have medical properties. The Institute of Medicine and the Shafer Commission (now mirrored here) have both published extensive studies that in no way back the current prohibition. The FDA ignored this. The Federal Government despises that their lies have been discounted.
Now to the Board of Supervisors in San Diego. You are an entity of the State of California. Your loyalties should lie with your state, not your federal government. More importantly your loyalties should lie with the citizens who elected you and pay your salaries.
Californians have spoken time and time again on this issue. We support medical marijuana and a large majority of those people support the total end to prohibition of marijuana in favor of a system like alcohol or tobacco. Even our Republican Governor Schwarzenegger supports it. He used to smoke Marijuana himself.
George Bush, Bill Clinton, Clarence Thomas, Al Gore, Newt Gingrich and more of our Government Officials have admitted to smoking Marijuana, so I ask you, why do we suffer from people who are guilty themselves?
End Marijuana Prohibition. You already look like fools, you already have been caught lying, stop before you look like tyrants.
Shafer Commision Report, Richard Nixon, Medical Marijuana, Cannabis, San Diego
July 28, 2006 at 5:56 am
I think that article is very interesting. i am a user of cannabis and will most likly always be. I use the drug not medicinally but in a social enviroment, just like drink. In england thousands on young men and women go out all weekend and drink in excess and damage there body. Cannabis is illeagal and yet it is less harmfull. You smoke a joint with a group of friends you are definatly not going to get violent like many people do whilst they are drinking. It comes back to the old problem that governments wont legilise it as they will have no control. Control is the only reason it is illegal. Its much easier to grow a few cannabis plants at home than it is to brew some alchol. (See my grow blog) Good blog i like it.