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| Oakland Council To Prune Medical Marijuana |
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Posted by FoM on July 25, 2001 at 07:12:18 PT By Janine DeFao, Chronicle Staff Writer Source: San Francisco Chronicle 
The Oakland City Council last night approved a 50 percent cut in the amount of marijuana allowed under its medicinal marijuana ordinance, one of the most liberal in California. Saying that drug dealers are using the 1998 ordinance as a cover for illegal activity, Council President Ignacio De La Fuente had proposed reducing the number of outdoor marijuana plants permissible from 144 to 10. But De La Fuente reached a compromise earlier this week with some medical marijuana advocates that allows as many as 72 pot plants to be grown indoors, in an area no bigger than 32 square feet. Snipped Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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| Comment #4 posted by freedom fighter on July 25, 2001 at 21:45:45 PT |
| Got this 20-30 pages from my so called treatment crap... 20 years of tobacco smoking equal 1 year of chronic pot smoking...... I am a 15 year chronic pot smoker... I guess my lungs is worth 300 years of smokes... gish! [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #3 posted by lookinside on July 25, 2001 at 20:38:08 PT:
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| i like the Q&A format...at least 20% of the cops who read it might understand it...definitely a step up... truthsearcher: don't tell anybody, but if industrial hemp is legalized(whispering) -all the outdoor growers in the central valley and elsewhere will have problems with pollination of their finest herb with that stuff..completely seeded substandard herb and seeds that will produce ditch weed... i propose that industrial hemp only be grown in virginia and the carolinas as a rotation crop for the tobacco farmers... and PLEASE don't tell the drug warriors about this...they may actually figure it out... [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #2 posted by truthsearcher on July 25, 2001 at 19:37:51 PT |
| Yes the answer is simple. Legalize it. The hard thing to figure out is why it has stayed this way for so long. They should keep industrial hemp illegal though. That stuff is as dangerous as cocaine. [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #1 posted by kaptinemo on July 25, 2001 at 07:40:52 PT:
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| We all know about the old adage of leading horses to water, but what about cops to the truth? "Oakland police said that the valuable marijuana, estimated to be worth $4, 000 to $5,000 a pound, can attract criminal activity, such as robberies and home burglaries. So, lets try the Socratic method. Maybe we can break through the preternatuarlly thick skulls this way: Q: Why is cannabis so valuable? A: Because it's illegal. Q: Why is it illegal? A: Beause a racist bigot suckered an easily stonkered and demonstrably ignorant Congress into passing a law based upon not a single shred of scientific evidence but on lurid, unsubstantiated tabloid tales of violent behavior it supposedly ellicited on the part of minorities Q: Why does it continue to be illegal when there's no truth to the reasons for it being illegal in the first place? A: Because certain groups have a vested interest in keeping it illegal, for various self-serving, anti-democratic reasons which have nothing to do with the 'public safety' so often claimed by them. Q: So, how do we rectify the situation so that police resources aren't needlessly squandered in dealing with a decidedly non-issue? See how simple it is? :) [ Post Comment ] |
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