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Medical marijuana cards to be issued in July


By Staff, City News Service

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 4 comments  |  read comments  |  post a comment

San Diego: marijuana700-2San Diego County will begin issuing identification cards of medical marijuana users next month — more than a decade after California voters approved Proposition 215, it was reported Wednesday.

The county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday gave the nod to issuing the cards on July 6 for a $166 processing fee, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

The board also directed its attorneys to draft a law banning medical marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated areas, according to the newspaper. Public Health Officer Dr. Wilma Wooten reportedly said the county will likely process an average 100 or so applications a month.

San Diego County was one of several counties in the state to sue over California’s medical marijuana law, which was approved by voters under Proposition 215 in 1996.

County officials said federal law banning marijuana trumps the state law that allows sick or dying people to use it to ease painful symptoms. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the county’s case last month.

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Comment by: AB390 Posted: June 24, 2009, 3:16 pm

That’s great that San Diego County is obeying the law.

Marijuana should be available not only to patients but also to adults who want to relax with a drug that is less toxic than alcohol. It is a basic human right to allow adults to make this choice.

If you want marijuana to be legalized, taxed, and regulated for adults, YOU can make it happen. Tell your legislators to support California Assembly Bill 390. It’s easy. Visit yes390.org

Comment by: mr. ihavehadit Posted: June 25, 2009, 5:21 am

My prediction: A time will come when our children’s children will look back at history and condemn the un-American values of the prohibitionist. A time will come when America finds out that Harry Anslinger was a racist who was secretly working for a monarchy government whose goal was to style America after itself by enacting sumptuary laws to create class distinction between members of society which according to Abraham Lincoln was un-patriotic and not what American values and ideals were founded on. Congress will someday issue an official apology for the prohibition laws their predecessors put into place.
The concept of any prohibition comes from the definition of a sumptuary law. A sumptuary law attempts to control and divide people into classes by limiting the desires of those considered the lesser class. Generally monarch type governments use sumptuary laws to inflict class separation through prohibiting the lesser class from participating in something reserved strictly by the so called upper class royalty.
Any 4th grade student understands this country was founded on the principles of individual freedoms.” A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.” -Abraham Lincoln U.S. President. These same people pushing prohibition would be targeted for treason investigation had they been around during the founding of our country!

Comment by: CA215 Posted: June 25, 2009, 1:01 pm

Good.

Mr. Ihavehadit is correct. Prohibition of marijuana was little more than a racist act. The idea that the government can tell you what to ingest and how is merely 60 years old in America.

If you are for minority rights, you must be for individual rights, as individuals are the smallest minority.

There is not a single person in this country who wants to smoke marijuana but doesn’t because it’s illegal. The only affect prohibition has it to make criminals out of dealers and users, and then enrich the criminals under the black market.

Legalize it. Hopefully, as this nation bankrupts itself people will realize the value of a very very limited government.

Comment by: Allen Ronner Posted: June 25, 2009, 10:19 pm

Along with issueing the cards, the County of San Diego needs to start complying with state law and stop trying to undermine it.
But this Tuesday showed that this County Board of Supervisors along with this district attorney and Sheriffs department has no intention whatsoever in complying with state law. What the County Board of Supervisors Video Archive, Item 20, which they snuck in with almost no notice to the public. They voted to ban “illegal dispensaries”. And since “All sales are illegal, all dispensaries are illegal” says Dianne Jacobs, and Bill Horn chimes in that “yeah, now we can arrest people operating under the guise of 215″ catch phrase for any of the medical marijuana PATIENTS they happen to arrest this month. “Just another criminal operating under the guise of 215″ they say.
These people are so obsessed that they cannot see that they no longer represent the people they were ELECTED to serve.
Everybody out there can make one phone call this week to any elected official and tell them to quit wasting our taxpayer money to pursue medical patients and stores and every other name they want to call the transaction of money for marijuana, and just start taxing it.
This is such a waste of taxpayer resources it is not justifiable under any form of logic whatsoever.

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