REAL MEDICINE? | UTSanDiego.com:
I was surprised that the article seemed so favorable toward medical marijuana,and it seemed to treat the subject much more fairly. In the past, I was under the impression that the newspaper editorial staff reluctantly sometimes supported the California policy since the medical marijuana proposition was passed. From the sound of this article, they seemed to be a little more in favor of it.
I wonder if CVS, Rite-Aid, and Walgreens were selling the prescription medicine it would have been different. When the proposition came out, I wondered why the authors insisted on pot dispensaries being little mom & pop operations. I think they might have been trying to help small farmers or something like that, rather than actually improve patient's health.
The newspaper does, however seem to want to put more restrictions on the retail establishments. From reading their articles and editorials, it sometimes sounds like the medical marijuana dispensaries are in the business of selling illegal drugs to children and they attract bums and sleazy people around the neighborhoods of the businesses. Somehow I think they are stretching the truth -- I have a hard time believing that sick people congregate around outside these businesses and contribute to noise, pollution, crime etc. I think they go in, buy their prescription and go home. I never seem to read or hear of real complaints from neighbors -- always the police or prosecutors who just don't like the businesses being legal because it is cutting down on their opportunities for easy busts.
