Los Angeles Prepares For Clash Over Marijuana
LOS ANGELES — There are more marijuana stores here than public schools. Signs emblazoned with cannabis plants or green crosses sit next to dry cleaners, gas stations and restaurants.
The dispensaries range from Hollywood-day-spa fabulous to shoddy-looking storefronts with hand-painted billboards. Absolute Herbal Pain Solutions, Grateful Meds, Farmacopeia Organica.
Cannabis advocates claim that more than 800 dispensaries have sprouted here since 2002; some law enforcement officials say it is closer to 1,000. Whatever the real number, everyone agrees it is too high.
And so this, too, is taken for granted: Crackdowns on cannabis clubs will soon come in this city, which has more dispensaries than any other.
Meanwhile…
LA County Ignores The Facts, Refuses To Solve Any Problems
California is experiencing a serious political freak out. Well, they are in Los Angeles County, and they’ve taken to the local country club to figure out a way to fight that darn marijuana! The group of older law enforcement agents, lawyers, and politicians are out on a personal mission to close down every single dispensary in Los Angeles County.
So let’s see, there are too many dispensaries? According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, there are an estimated 86 MILLION people in the United States that suffer from chronic pain. That’s almost three California’s full of people suffering from chronic pain. If there are 305 Million people in the United States, that means slightly over 25% (28% to be exact, but for ease in calculation, I am using 25%) of the population of the United States suffers from ONE of the qualifying conditions for medical marijuana in all 13 states with medical marijuana protection.
So ask yourself, are there really too many dispensaries in Los Angeles County? There are almost…
Sun, Oct 18, 2009
Marijuana / Cannabis / Hemp