Hello everybody.

As someone who is considering running for elected office in my area, I am
here to write my policy position on safe access on marijuana for people who
need it for a medical condition.

Sadly my city of Ontario and the county of San Bernardino which my city is
a part of made it difficult for individuals to obtain their medicine.

Proposition 215 made it possible for individuals to obtain the drug to
treat their medical conditions thanks to its passage in November 1996. Even
though almost all of the counties have implementation plans, many cities in
San Bernardino County decided to firewall their communities against having
these establishments in their neighborhoods because they say, if federal
law does not let us have the drug or use the drug then federal law would
trump state law.

But its ironic how many of these opponents may be hospitable to states
rights, but they are selective to the application of the tenth amendment.
Kind of like how Los Angeles County DA would not defend Prop 19 that
legalized marijuana possession for any usage if it passed in the 2010
election.

I know cities want to maintain order and quality of life, but there should
be a way to host a dispensary away from residential districts with rules
such as you can not bundle any other drug aside from the marijuana, if you
consume the drug within a 1/2 mile radius in public of the dispensarys
location you can receive the same charge as being publicly intoxicated.

I am not a marijuana user, but I believe in individual personal freedom to
make the proper choices for their lives.

Or better yet the solution should follow where people  just grow their own
plants and not have to worry about dispensaries and as long as you do not
tax the water system or the energy grid, you should be left alone. If you
are in a single family home and you use up a water supply to fill up a
swimming pool when you do not have a swimming pool, then the DEA and the
local police should have a word with you.


Matt

... "The state has no business in the bedroom of the nation."-
Pierre Trudeau
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