City’s Medical Marijuana Ordinance to Get a Fresh Look

» Bruce Holms on 01.26.10 @ 12:27 PM

Dear Parent:

Please tell me what medications you take on a regular basis that aren’t addictive - please include nicotine, alcohol, caffeine, celexa, effexor, elavil, fluuoxetine, lexapro,paxil,prozac, remeron, wellbrutin, zoloft,carisoprodol, cyclobenzaprine, flexeril, flextra D5, skelaxin, soma, zanaflex, buspar, butalbiltal, fioricet, motrin, tramadol, ultracet, ultram, and so many more I can’t list.

All of these are NOT easily obtainable except from your local pharmacy with a physician’s prescription. They are all for some particular disease - kinda like medical marijuana.

No one seems to care how many pharmacies there are - or where they are. Children are even able to peruse the aisles without any supervision at all.

Do you realize how many addictive substances there are in those aisles?

You can’t get into a dispensary without legal state papers. Children can never get in.

You need to realize that legal pot has nothing to do with you - it has nothing to do with your children.

It’s for ADULTS who choose to use a NON-PHARMACEUTICALLY produced product that’s been around for thousands of years.

You are politicizing this issue with your silly notion and rhetoric that is full of emotional hype.

A new drug is introduced hourly by the drug industry (People don’t need more access to more drugs.) and rubber stamped by the FDA.  Many of these new drugs are helpful, most are recalled within 180 days.

The side effects are unbelievable - some can even kill you!

The side effects of marijuana are so minimal that most “educated” people don’t consider it as anything at all.

Get your facts straight!

BTW, “A Parent” - why not come from behind your apparent mask and use your name - unless you are ashamed of what you wrote.

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» Squanto on 01.26.10 @ 02:52 PM

>>“Not once have I ever witnessed loitering teens, vandalism, crime, or any other negative abuses.”

I have.  Plenty of times. 

>>“These are serious businesses with serious clienteles.”

Oh, please.

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» Cheryl Shuman on 01.26.10 @ 06:58 PM

As the Executive Director for Beverly Hills NORML90210.org, cancer survivor and legal cannabis patient, I am filled with mixed emotions about this ordinance. I am the first person to stand up for the rights of patients, however, there have obviously been some people in Los Angeles abusing the system. Each day we receive hundreds of emails and phone calls asking for guidance on the latest regulations. The legal system is confusing at best.  Recently I testified before City Council to clarify the need for CLEAR, CONCISE and CONSISTENT legislation. In my personal life, I am faced with serious health issues that could cost my life due to my inability to qualify for a liver transplant. Does it matter that I have never smoked a cigarette or done drugs of any kind in my life? Apparently not. I used legal medicinal cannabis during my cancer treatment. While cannabis has saved my life thus far, prohibiting the growth, spread and metastisizing of the tumors throughout my system, I recently learned that the mere fact that I used Cannabis as an alternative health treatment could disqualify me for a life-saving organ transplant.  My hope and prayers are that the cannabis medicine that I use daily will keep me alive until the laws can change.  I am not alone. Patients like me die each and every day, but the mainstream media does not report that news. At what point will the general public and mainstream media care about this injustice?  Meanwhile, I hope that others will join me in the fight for clarification and legalization for medicinal cannabis and the responsible adult use of marijuana.

Sincerely,
Cheryl Shuman
Executive Director
Beverly Hills NORML90210.org
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws

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