DISPENSARY BAN DOES GREAT DISSERVICE TO ILL

Much has been said of the medical marijuana issue in Yucca Valley.
People of Yucca Valley, it really comes down to this. On June 15,
your town council is going to vote an illegal and unconstitutional
permanent ban on medical marijuana dispensaries in Yucca Valley,
which means there will be no access for patients to lawful medicine
of choice in the high desert and Morongo Basin areas.

Fact: Medical marijuana is legal for use in California by lawful vote
of the people and proper enactment by stage legislature. The
so-called loyal opposition claim the law is full of loopholes, while
in fact the state legislature, in great wisdom, specifically designed
the law to require local government to properly regulate what is a
ultimately a local issue. It's local because it affects you and me
regardless of how we think and feel on the issue. More importantly it
affects the civil rights of each and every one of you.

What has happened is your town government has effectively cut and run
on the issue. Now with three seats up for election, the incumbent
group can force a majority decision to close down the only high
desert dispensary available to our many cancer-stricken and
chronically ill people.

So now, at the June 15 meeting, they are going to enact an ordinance
and fully ban dispensaries in Yucca Valley on absolutely no fact
except their group inability and failure to properly regulate and
govern in and for the benefit of the people of Yucca Valley. And to
the last sentence I would like to add the benefit of the many
thousands who live in the immediate area whose dollars truly support
Yucca Valley.

* It seems to me the local cooperative has made every rational effort
to work with this group of people who steadfastly have refused to do
their job and properly regulate a lawful business operation. What
heroes you politicos could have been to our seniors and ill people
who daily rely on this legal method of medication. But then what can
you expect from a group of dedicated cut runners, true Republicans,
leaving the city in a financial and moral disaster?

Doesn't anybody in this town have the guts to stand and run for the
moral majority on the issue, or are you going to let your civil
rights be trampled into the dust of the town budget?

I encourage all to attend and participate in this issue so vital to
health of our community.