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The Yucca Valley City Council voted last night to give the only medicinal marijuana dispensary
An anti-Veteran City
in the Morongo Basin the boot. They said CAMS (California Alternative Medicinal Solutions) has got to go. They didn’t approve of its location at the Monterrey Business Center — although they put them in there in the first place. They said, the dispensary can’t be located next door to a dance studio. Interesting, the studio was there when the Council allowed CAMS to move in at that location. More interesting, the fact is that the studio is right next a toxic chemical use business.
How many CAMS employees will now be laid off. Merry Christmas CAMS employees. But it will not be so merry. There are no other jobs in the valley to put these people back to work. Wouldn’t it be ironic if the Council themselves were to have no means of income just a few weeks before Santa Clause came to town. They (the Council members whom voted for this sham) all should be sent to a Pig Farms in Idaho.
Lets not overlook the fact that CAMS was donating $4,000 a month to the Morongo Basin No-Kill Animal Shelter. The Shelter now faces closure. Hence, we have a Council that in effect may be contributorily negligent in killing basin animals and pets in this valley.
There was some urging to place the issue on the local ballot. However, former rotating Mayor lit’l Franky (‘Num Nuts’) Luckino said: “We can make the decision ourselves.” The Council hid behind a land use defense saying allowing a dispensary is a land use issue. They’re a bunch of inept political hypocrites.
All the rhetoric in the Basin about veterans is nothing more than flag waving and dishonest bull. Marijuana is not a hallucinogenic drug, it’s a botanical/herb! And a useful one at that. This is a significant victory for the tobacco industry, multinational pharmaceutic giants, and a sordid love connection with alcohol distributors and producers — all of which we all know kill millions of people.
Do they know how many veterans use the CAMS dispensary? Sure they do. Do they care, of course not. Will they rip out hundred of acres of old growth Joshua Trees without remorse so their developer buddies can came to town and make a killing? Not a problem.
OB/BYN Palm Springs physician reports that medicinal hemp is proven in many clinical studies at prestigious America & European institutions to be very useful in human health conditions, such as glaucoma, AIDS, MS, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, nausea and vomiting, post-cancer chemotherapy, et. cetera. Including PTSD.
Morongo Basin has more veterans per capital than most any other city in the U.S. Many of our residents are suffering from major illnesses, life threatening medical problems and terminal certainty. Many are at the poverty level, or below. Now they must travel to Palm Springs for this harmless medicinal herb — that can be very expensive since many veterans are limited to buying small amounts a time.
This brings shame and disrespect to this City Council — and the 29 Palms Gang of Four morons as well — for letting stand a Planning Commission rule to disallow veterans in 29 a dispensary.
This is so very frustration. It’s anti-American… All of our laws provide for the medicinal use of this harmless but useful plant. I maintain all of the Y.V. Council members are outlaws for dissing California law and judicial rulings. They’re acting in a shameful and un-American manner.
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Footnote: This writer hasn’t a use card. Yes he can pass any substance use test.
“The ends do not justify the means.” If you use illegal mean to accomplish a legal and even desirable result, the good result does not make the bad means you used justifiable.
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Not going to pick one side or the other in the issue of medical marijuana. But you really might want to fact check some things. Like crime rates in areas where a dispensary is located, major illnesses, life threatening medical problems and terminal certainty are not all helped by marijuana, and California law and judicial rulings have allowed for counties and cities to just what Yucca Valley and Twentynine Palms decided. Also in the case of Twentynine Palms I don’t think that the people who were going to open a dispensary, nor supporters, didn’t even show up at the planning commission nor the city council meetings. As they were the ones that asked for it.
By the way, I am a Veteran.
[Breaking News Update: Wed. morning 8:03 a.m - Just announced, the news media carries a story that tobacco kills five (5) million every years! The few locally misguided hypocrites who believe they're on a Mission of God pertaining to legal dispensaries -- and both local patronizing City Councils -- need to rethink their mission as this useful botanical plant has never killed anybody. Outlaw that law makers. Cowards]
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Thanks for serving. I have checked my facts. Thank you. And you have already picked sides. Belly-up to it. The things you reference are inundated with misinformation, untruths and outright exaggerated lies. It’s not that you are being misleading, not that, it’s that those that can’t stand living in a democracy — like the extremist few opportunists in this valley and San Bernardino who are serving up freshly foisted manure.
The crime thing in mainly false. Dispensaries that are placed in safe neighborhoods are doing just fine and experience no crime. While municipal codes force some dispensary into crime ridden neighborhoods, that is the problem. PTSD is best treated by this botanical plant. PTDS is a horrible illness that haunts so many of hundreds of thousand of our veterans, and it’s namely being treated with an accumulation of many very dangerous pharmaceutical drugs that makes the situation far worse, while they exacerbate, they become very wealthy. Greed is a godly good, right?
You wrote, “terminal certainty are not all helped by marijuana.” That in the most far-fetched lie out there. A vast majority of dispensary cardholders in California are terminal cancer patients over the age of 65. Try telling that piece of outrageous false propaganda to these dead-walking fine folks that get a little respite from a harmless botanical plant that helps them through certain death.
Honestly, your facts are horribly duplicitous and hypocritical. The truth is that “D.J. Ross, executive director of CAMS, addressed the claims of a one-sided presentation during his turn at the podium.” He said:
“This is the sixth time we’ve heard this subject. It’s clear from your staff reports that you have biased information,” he said, “hundreds of pages filled with unbelievable, scary stories of every kind of crime committed form 2005 to today.”
You need to retract that glaring inaccuracy in a followup comment.
This needs to go to a vote, but the biggest ignorant opportunist of them all, Councilman Frank Luckino, has done everything he can do to keep the issue from going to a vote. It’s the law, the peoples choice via initiative, and lower and California Supreme Court decisions, as well as backed up by the SCOTUS scoffing a the legality a challenge of the popular proposition that the people passed in California. Our own SB Supervisors spend untold tens of thousand in litigation only to be left with egg on their silly faces; they lost their battle challenge of the approved initiative.
Wise up Theoldman, get your facts straight. The problems in the U.S. stem from the alcohol industry and supplies, the tobacco industry and, most certainly, the most powerful and wealthiest corporations in the World — the pharmaceutical giants. As well some of the media in the country that make their living from advertisement revenues aiding and abetting death and illnesses. These groups factually kill tens of millions around the world.
It’s all about mind control; the manipulators have their hook deep into your soft tissue. Pandering to small town ignoramuses, Y.V. Town’s staff even submitted reports that one “Florida teen possibly trading sex for pot.” Oh, how lame. How many tens of thousands of millions of American kids have been killed by the supra-mentioned legal killers and profiteers of death. Everyone on the council should be booted out of office. Their Anti-American stench (on this issue) is like a blanket smothering constitutional processes.
End result, Y.V and 29 Palms are anti-veteran on the important issue of legal dispensaries.They circumvent our Legislature, Supreme Court decisions and the popular mandate of the people of California.
The local propagandizing going on in the name of God by a small few is un-American, an outrage and a manifest disgrace to veterans who choose to take advantage of this useful and harmful plant.
Thank you sir.
Fair enough. You have raised valid points. And just as you stated there is “misinformation, untruths and outright exaggerated lies” probably on both sides of the issue.
I have no doubt in my mind that there are those that are helped by medical marijuana, but I have seen that for a few )all be it may be a small number) that there are those that it is just too little to late to help.
I look to source my info based off http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/. It may not be the be-all-end-all of knowledge, but I would like to think that it is a good staring point.
I would like to point out that in nothing I have read did anyone say that those with a valid The Medical Marijuana Program (MMP) card were not allowed to do as the law allows. As I read it, the MMP was established to provide qualified patients and their caregivers authorization to possess, grow, transport and/or use Medical Marijuana in California. There was nothing that said that local city/town governments had to allow dispensaries. Please show me if I have miss it some where.
As far as big business trying to rule the world. I agree. they have there hands in everything. They set back and watch which way the wind blows from one subject to the other, seeking where they can squeeze the next dollar out of us. And media, well they are just looking for the next story.
I am not one that will just look at one side of an issue and jump. I looked at; http://www.justice.gov/dea/ongoing/calimarijuana.html, http://www.safeaccessnow.net/index.htm, http://www.chrisconrad.com/expert.witness/sb420-03.htm, and http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/MMP/Pages/Medical Marijuana Program.aspx just to name a few.
Now, if everyone is wrong who can be right? Not me, not all the time
that is for sure. Like I said, I am not picking a side. I have friends and acquaintances that have the MMP Card. I think no less or more of them than those without. I see this more as a local choice for cities and town to set standards. I am in favor of putting this to a vote. Let the citizens choice what they want when local government is at odds with it’s citizens.
I applaud your well written response to me. And I look forward to many more discussions on this and other topics.
(Side Note) I see great and well written fact based opinions and comments from Cactus Thorns. And it is always good to see people with opinions and ideas expressing them. Keep up the great job.
When ultra-right Pulitzer-winning journalist and longtime icon thinker of America’s political right George Will calls for legalizing marijuana, people should start listening.
You say, probably on both sides of the issue there is misinformation. C’mon, like what misinformation? What really flappably is when you say: “…that there are those [terminal cancer suffers] that it is just too little to late to help.”
Tell that to my dead vet friend who’s guts were full of holes while he preferred a harmless botanical plant to drinking morphine. Your obscure statement and riling point of view is the reason AB 390 and SB 315 is law in California.
Municipalities may implement as they see fit. Ignorant and worthless opportunists public officials hide behind city codes.
You discuss your friends use of the botanical herb, but you are not in their skin, are you?
Have a good day, and be warm.
“ultra-right Pulitzer-winning journalist…. George Will”??
He is as middle of the road, milk toast, Rockefeller Republican as you can get. Next you’ll be telling us Senator Olympia J. Snowe is an ultra-conservative.