Pubdate: Sat, 15 Dec 2012
Source: Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA)
Copyright: 2012 Steven Ruddick
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Author: Steven Ruddick

STOP WAR ON MEDICAL POT

Local cities think they can use zoning to ban medical marijuana
dispensaries ("Medical marijuana dispensary ban upheld again," Dec.3).

But the majority of Californians voted to approve Prop. 215,
legalizing medicinal pot, and local politicians should not have the
after-the-fact power to ban it.

The California Supreme Court also has ruled that medical marijuana
patients have the same right to obtain their legal medicine as other
patients do to obtain their prescription medication.

The same legal principle should hold true of San Bernardino County's
indoor-only cultivation policy ("Pot dispensaries banned," March 22,
2011). It should be an unconstitutional amendment of Prop. 215 because
the people didn't approve it.

The power of the people is stronger than the people in
power.

Steven Ruddick

Angelus Oaks
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