Under California law, a physician can prescribe cannabis, correct? Should an employer be allowed to discriminate against employees because they are taking prescription medication that the employer does not approve of? "Hey boy, I done told you once you ain't gonna be doin that insulin crap on my watch."
I didn't think I'd need to post this again, but after reading the BULL EXCREMENT story about poor Gary Ross and then some of the posts on this thread, it left me no choice.
I live in a idyllic close knit little hamlet of about 50 homes and cabins nestled into the redwood forests deep in the beautiful Santa Cruz mountains between Silicon Valley and Santa Cruz. The nearest town is over five miles away and it only has a population of 7,000.
Recently, the sheriff executed a search warrant on a resident here for growing marijuana in his house. A day or two latter, this neighbor (a young man and single parent of two adolescent daughters) came down to the beach (a favorite neighborhood gathering spot along the river) and explained to his curious neighbors just what had transpired. To the best of my recollection, this is a true rendering of that exchange.
doper: (proudly) The sheriff didn't arrest me, confiscate my marijuana or even give me a citation because I am a registered medical marijuana grower.
neighbor: You have a medical problem that requires marijuana for treatment?
doper: Yes, my back hurts real bad and I can't work without it.
neighbor: What do you do for a living?
doper: I'm a carpenter.
neighbor: You mean to tell me you work all day with power tool like saws, drills and nail guns and the like, and you do this while stoned? Have you ever warned the people you work with that you're stoned?
doper: Yeah, I work with lots of power tools. So what? I'm real careful. I don't tell the others though, because my boss is real narrow minded about drugs and would fire me.
neighbor: So, you only use this for medical purposes and not just to get stoned?
doper: Yeah, just for my back.
neighbor: So how come when you were down here last week, you were so stoned that when someone asked you which high school you graduated from and when, you couldn't even remember?
doper: Uhhh..., my back was hurting real bad that day.
neighbor: So you only grow your marijuana for your own "medical" purposes and not to sell to others? I mean, you don't distribute it or anything like that, do you?
doper: Oh, I would never distribute it. That would be illegal. I grow it is just for my own use.
neighbor: Then how come, as you told us, you are growing 60 plants? Wouldn't that many plants be able to medicate your back for the next 60 years?
doper: Uhhh...
neighbor: Tell me something else, as a fellow father, do you really think going through life stoned is a good way to raise those little girls of yours?
doper: Uhhh, they're not that little you know, one is eight and the other is eleven. I even left them home every day this summer while I went to work and they never got into any trouble that I ever heard of. I mean you're suggesting that I'm an irresponsible father or something and that's not fair.
neighbor: It's not fair? Here you are on a beach with over a dozen children playing all around you and you're sitting here smoking dope in plain sight of them. What would you call that, if not irresponsible?
Medical marijuana? Hey sonny boy, don't piss on my boots and try to tell me it raining. Where I live, they grow the biggest baddest weed there is and I've found that 99% of the people claiming "it's medical marijuana" are lying through there teeth. Can't we begin to show at least a modicum of honesty and own up to the truth that its really just a scam?
Regards,
Boot Hill
Let's see the "prescription."