Posted on 07/23/2002 11:02:28 AM PDT by The Energizer
San Francisco may get into pot-growing business
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Voters in San Francisco will decide this fall whether the city should grow its own marijuana.
Under a measure that will be on the ballot in November, city officials would explore growing pot and distributing it to seriously ill patients who have permission from their doctors.
Supporters said such a program on city-owned land could double as agriculture job training for the unemployed.
The city Board of Supervisors voted late Monday to put the measure on the ballot.
Supervisor Mark Leno said he drafted the proposal because the Drug Enforcement Administration remains determined to close down clubs that distribute medical marijuana in San Francisco and across California.
He said voters made it clear when they approved Proposition 215 in 1996 that they support medicinal marijuana.
``If the federal government insists on standing in our way locally, we must take matters into our own hands and protect the lives of our community members and protect their right to access lifesaving medicine,'' Leno said. ``We have a lot of land. That's not going to be a problem.''
Cultivating, possessing and distributing marijuana are illegal under federal law.
``Unless Congress changes the law and makes marijuana a legal substance, then we have to do our job and enforce the law, whether or not it's popular,'' Richard Meyer, a DEA spokesman in San Francisco.
I agree that the states should be able to determine the legality of pot on their own within their borders. But this is the first time I have ever heard pot referred to as a "life saving medicine."
The same perverts describe sodomy as an "act of love".
I hope they go through with this scheme.
It'll be fun to watch the feds finally put this sordid nest of perverts in the slammer.
Cancer patients who cannot overcome the nausea associated with their chemotherapy have reported for many many years that they have regained their appetite and gained lifesaving weight because of the effects of pot. Grandmothers and grandfathers, aunts and uncles. Of course many here will accuse them of just being dopers, but now you know.
So a 75 yr. old grandmother who uses pot for her nausea is a pervert? A sodomist?
Unless of course it's your mother or father who you are watching die before your very eyes due to lack of nourishment.
It is quite a struggle to get my 85 yr. old mother to eat, and she doesn't even have the nausea problem.
And no, we don't use MJ for it. And no, I don't use it and never have. But I do advocate the re-legalisation of all substances.
I advocate the removal of the IFG control in such matters and for states to determine their own policies and laws within their borders.
If state A wants to make MJ legal and state B wants to make it illegal, fine with me. Seems to me to be the proper constitutional method regarding the subject. And the IFG should have no say in it at all. So none of that 'make it illegal or you lose $5 Billion in highway funds" as they do with so much other stuff today.
When that city is San Francisco, you'd have hundreds, if not thousands, who'd jump at the chance. It'd be like finding sand in the desert.
Where does the Constitution delegate the authority to the Feds to interfere in this State policy?
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor forbidden by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Amendment X
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