“More than three years after Garden Grove police seized a small amount of marijuana from a chronic pain patient, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider the city’s argument — which divided California’s major law enforcement organizations — that it should not have to give the drugs back. Advocates cheered the development as a step forward for medical marijuana users to get their “medicine” back from police,” according to the L.A. Times.
While the Supreme Court’s decision is good news, check out the latest news on our misfiring drug war, “At least 38 people have been killed in Tijuana since Saturday, nine of them decapitated, in escalating drug-related violence that appears to have left in tatters a Mexican military offensive launched two weeks ago,” according to the L.A. Times.
Are U.S. politicians ever going to figure this out? Will President Elect Barack Obama do anything to change our national drug policy? I seriously doubt it, but we can only hope for real change, not the B.S. we heard during the campaign season.
This follows a September 8th ruling by the Supreme Court that Federal Law doesn’t trump State Law when it comes to Medical Marijuana. Oh my God, the police will have to work on finding illegal drug users/growers to hassle.
That will be harder to do, they will probably have to go back to (what they never stopped?) intimidating kids into serving as unpaid undercover drug enforcement agents before they ship them off to jail. What? Only a few get killed in the process and besides these kids were on drugs!
You gotta love the consistency of our country – or hate it.
Alcohol-related car crashes kill someone every 31 minutes and injure someone every two minutes. When is the last time you read about a car crash and the driver was high on medical MJ?
True that, Bushala, a point I frequently make, along with:
When was the last stoned brawl you witnessed (as opposed to drunken brawl) with folks carted off injured or dead?
When you hear the neighboring couple down the way, or maybe your own parents when you were a kid, hollering obscenities and hitting each other, did you think “Oh no, Dad or Mom has been smoking weed again”?
That old guy on the street with the bad liver and teeth falling out, puking over there behind the bushes; does he cause you to say to your son, “Look what a lifetime of marijuana use will do to you, young man.”
You wake up, head throbbing, next to someone you don’t recognize, and the second thing you say to yourself after “I hope I used a condom” is “That’s the last time I go out in public after smoking a joint”?
No, no, no, and no, eh? Any more examples?