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You’re behind the times. The blatantly illegal “medical marijuana” experiment has been a dismal failure in Los Angeles (home to three million Californians)...Every neighborhood that isn’t Beverly Hills has been invaded by these drug dens, and the increase in crime, decay and antisocial behavior is patently manifest.

Did it ever occur to you that maybe it's just that LA, itself, is a sh*thole full of anti-social criminals to begin with? I live in Nor Cal, and we haven't seen any problems with the medical marijuana dispensaries. My town actually banned the dispensaries, but people can still grow it, and I know quite a few who do - good, upstanding, productive members of society who have jobs and families.

Having said that, even your case in LA shows that the system is working as intended. In other words, LA tried out the MM thing, saw problems, and banned it, while other, less ridiculous communities tried it and it worked just fine. All the MM law does is remove the one-size-fits-all mentality of the insane drug laws. The fed should have nothing to say about any of it, if we actually followed the Constitution, and that wouldn't make it all legal, that would simply leave the decision to state and local governments AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE.

“Did it ever occur to you that maybe it’s just that LA, itself, is a sh*thole full of anti-social criminals to begin with? “

These problems in my neighborhood began with the legalization of drug collectives. So, no. You’re wrong. And thanks for insulting my city.

And you’re welcome, Northern California, for all the tax money Southern California supports you with, so you can sit around stoned all day in your oh-so-civil, problem-free drug dens.

Oh, wait. No, you’re not welcome.

Also, I would compare Colorado and New Mexico medical marijuana laws. Colorado basically became a joke of a process, to where able-bodied young men could get a MM license. So Colorado has taken steps to tighten up its MM laws and processes.

Whereas NM had pretty stringent guidelines all along to qualify, and you don't see dispensaries all over the place and you actually have to have a significant medical condition - confirmed by two doctors in most cases - to get a license.

And guess what? Different states, different approaches, different results, learning what works and what doesn't. Isn't that what federalism is supposed to produce? Experimentation in fifty states, with success and failures - a much better approach than the top-down one-size-fits-all-and-badly approach of the feds imposing their will upon everyone?