Pubdate: Sun, 30 Sep 2012
Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
Copyright: 2012 Los Angeles Times
Contact:  http://www.latimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/248
Author: Arthur Armstrong
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v12/n477/a08.html

SOME CLARITY ON POT POLICY

Of course our pot policy is a shambles. Medical marijuana is a shabby 
joke, one that provides a fig leaf for the illicit distribution of pot.

We already have lots of businesspeople running clean, safe stores 
serving sick people. We call them "drugstores," and Los Angeles is 
simply awash in them. During Prohibition, people who could obtain a 
note from their doctors were able to buy booze at drugstores.

Today, "businesspeople" have added hundreds of dispensaries to serve 
the multitudes suffering the kinds of ailments for which the only 
cure is a joint. That's as credible as "student athletes."

Arthur Armstrong

Manhattan Beach
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