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[SIZE=+2]US CA: Editorial: A Growing Problem[/SIZE]
(02 Oct 2007) Arcata Eye California
We won't lack public involvement in this week's long-overdue consideration of Arcata's marijuana grow house situation. Rather, the problem will be sorting through the noise and chaff to find the helpful comment.
On the few previous occasions when the council and Planning Commission have even touched on the issue, they've been preemptively castigated as heartless oppressors. The reason for this is that the Compassionate Use Act is being abused by some to grow marijuana for profit.
There's big money involved -- very big. So expect distracting arguments of every sort, engineered to preserve the dangerously dysfunctional but for some, profitable status quo.
First, California's progressive Compassionate Use Act must be protected. Our federal government's insane refusal to properly manage the medical use of cannabis is but one of the ongoing obscenities its now conducting against its citizens and humanity in general.
Irrational, pernicious superstitions about marijuana have set up a legal situation ideal for black market profiteers. Over the years, they've figured out all the angles, from street-level resale of prescribed cannabis to use of surrogates to obtain licenses to legitimize industrial grows.
The related phenomenon of suburban grow houses is consuming housing built for human beings while burning some of the houses down. There's got to be a more sensible way for people to get medication that they need.
Preserving compassion, protecting human rights, property rights and neighborhood safety with no help at all from the federal government is a huge but necessary challenge for our City Council. It will require ideas and cooperation, plus more than a little good will. Those things exist, and hopefully will amount to more than just a few needles in a haystack of distraction.
[SIZE=-1]MAP posted-by: Richard Lake[/SIZE]
Pubdate: Tue, 02 Oct 2007
Source: Arcata Eye (CA)
Copyright: 2007 Arcata Eye
Contact: [email protected]
Website: http://www.arcataeye.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1210
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?115 (Marijuana - California)
[SIZE=+2]US CA: Editorial: A Growing Problem[/SIZE]
(02 Oct 2007) Arcata Eye California
We won't lack public involvement in this week's long-overdue consideration of Arcata's marijuana grow house situation. Rather, the problem will be sorting through the noise and chaff to find the helpful comment.
On the few previous occasions when the council and Planning Commission have even touched on the issue, they've been preemptively castigated as heartless oppressors. The reason for this is that the Compassionate Use Act is being abused by some to grow marijuana for profit.
There's big money involved -- very big. So expect distracting arguments of every sort, engineered to preserve the dangerously dysfunctional but for some, profitable status quo.
First, California's progressive Compassionate Use Act must be protected. Our federal government's insane refusal to properly manage the medical use of cannabis is but one of the ongoing obscenities its now conducting against its citizens and humanity in general.
Irrational, pernicious superstitions about marijuana have set up a legal situation ideal for black market profiteers. Over the years, they've figured out all the angles, from street-level resale of prescribed cannabis to use of surrogates to obtain licenses to legitimize industrial grows.
The related phenomenon of suburban grow houses is consuming housing built for human beings while burning some of the houses down. There's got to be a more sensible way for people to get medication that they need.
Preserving compassion, protecting human rights, property rights and neighborhood safety with no help at all from the federal government is a huge but necessary challenge for our City Council. It will require ideas and cooperation, plus more than a little good will. Those things exist, and hopefully will amount to more than just a few needles in a haystack of distraction.
[SIZE=-1]MAP posted-by: Richard Lake[/SIZE]Pubdate: Tue, 02 Oct 2007
Source: Arcata Eye (CA)
Copyright: 2007 Arcata Eye
Contact: [email protected]
Website: http://www.arcataeye.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1210
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?115 (Marijuana - California)
