by Jack Lee
Got a back ache, get a pot prescription. Got a chronic upset stomach, get a pot prescription. Got a headache, get a pot prescription. Got some mysterious anxiety, get a pot prescription. The wonderous testimonials of a miracle cure by pot users are endless and so are those waiting to start their highly profitable pot dispensary in your local town.
But, before we get into the dispensary issue, check out how easy it is to be prescibed marijuana. This is taken from an internet ad suggests that some of the people holding a marijuana prescription may actually not be sick…NO? ( I am so shocked)
Here’s how you can get fixed up:
“Open the newspaper and look through the classified ads to find a physician who writes medical marijuana prescriptions.
Step 2 Make an appointment with a physician.
Step 3 Describe your symptoms/illness. Conditions which, by law, can be treated with medical marijuana include AIDS, cancer, chronic pain, anorexia, glaucoma, and arthritis. If you don’t suffer from any of these conditions, tell your physician that you sometimes get painful migraines and the only thing that works to alleviate your pain is marijuana.
Step 4 If your physician doesn’t write you a prescription, repeat the process with a different doctor.”
WSJ – “What was supposed to be a comprehensive resolution to Los Angeles’s long-running pot controversy is shaping up instead to be a long, strange trip.
“The city is going to be bogged down by years of litigation,” said Dan Halbert, president of Safe Access, a coalition of 130 dispensaries in Los Angeles that the city recently ordered closed. “Nobody wants that.” Mr. Halbert, who operates a dispensary, is a plaintiff in a lawsuit that a group of dispensaries filed against the city last month.
A 1996 California law allows people who are sick or in pain to use marijuana, which they can obtain through legal dispensaries.
San Francisco and other cities passed laws capping the number of dispensaries within their borders. But Los Angeles never did, and the shops mushroomed. The city finally issued a moratorium on new outlets in 2007, but failed to enforce it.
Residents in some parts of the city complained that the medical marijuana shops were creating a public nuisance, and attracting pot smokers who weren’t really sick.
Meanwhile, dispensaries opened and closed so quickly that city officials struggled to get an accurate count. At first, they said there were more than 1,000; that number later was scaled back to about 600.
Now, armed with a new ordinance that restricts the number of dispensaries to 186 in this city of 4 million people, the city is launching a new offensive. Last week, the city attorney sent letters ordering 439 dispensaries to shut down by June 7, when the ordinance takes effect.”