Published 10/30

With so much of government doing the wrong thing nowadays, I would be remiss if I didn't commend the Butte County Board of Supervisors for getting it exactly right in banning marijuana dispensaries which run counter to the spirit of Proposition 215, and have been a source of numerous criminal activities. Their departure is warmly welcomed by the majority of all law-abiding citizens.

Prop 215 remains intact, however, and although some quacks have issued "recommendations," and have allowed certain local drug dealers to refer to marijuana as "medicine," none of them has ever publically identified him/herself by name. The facts that they do not call the specious documents prescriptions, and their anonymity prevails, put the lie to the assertion that marijuana has any part in mitigating or curing disease.

Now that I have insulted some "doctors" out there, I invite them to make themselves known, and explain that marijuana simply masks pain, and as the law requires on bottles of other "herbal medicine," they announce that marijuana is, "Not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease."