Poll: L.A. County Residents Support Medical Marijuana

schwarzenegger_marijuana_debate.jpg In response recent promises of strict medical marijuana enforcement from City Attorney Carmen Trutanich and District Attorney Steve Cooley, the Marijuana Policy Project quickly hired an an independent firm to poll L.A. County voters on the issue. No surprises here, 74 percent support the California's medical marijuana law with 54 percent in support of marijuana being legalized for all, just the way Governor Schwarzenegger wants it.

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I voted to legalize Medical Marijuana, I support it.
I also support regulating it and taxing it, maybe a 15% tax shared by the city and the state. Also the city should issue licenses and charge a fee every year to maintain a Medical Marijuana dispensary.

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Most people do. But not Trutanich.

Trutanich is an idiot.

He sees this fake criminal activity from safe, privately owned collectives. You close those places down and you've just given a boost to the real criminal (gang) associations just like they had before.

But unfortunately our city council has stuck their thumbs up their asses for 14 years and believe now is the time to regulate and come down hard. I'm not saying even half of the medical prescriptions handed out are legit, but these facilities aren't creating new smokers. These are people who've most likely been smoking for some time and will find a certainly less legal distribution method to acquire it.

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Buzz Oldbud

15 Oct 2009 4:02a.m.
As someone who has made a fortune selling pot since 1964, and has helped your kids stop being alcoholics and Republicans, I fear I will now have to retire with all my ill gotten gains, that I have not had to pay taxes on to support your illegal wars and the lazy cops who go after pot users instead of real criminals. There is so much misinformation going around on the issue that is really all about the culture war going on now on most major issues of the day. The right-wingers out there deserve to eat the crap they spill out their mouths as their kids now get high instead of drinking and smoking cig's. The people who really will hurt are the ones who have been making a killing off of the high prices they have been charging people for years for a plant that is so easy to grow that your grandma could grow it successfully in a flower box with alittle lite and water and fertilizer. Take the profit out of it and that will open the cops time to go out and find real bad guys who are molesting your children.
Stop feeding your face with fast foods and watching your waist grow like a pot plant, and read the facts available on the internet on the positive effects that common folks have reported with the use of cannabis and how it has changed their lives to the positive and how it just makes them just plain feel better. This issue won't ever go away no matter who you put in office as millions of common folk choose pot over pills now. How many times have you heard of a bar room brawl and when was the last time you heard of a pot room brawl? When was the last time you heard of someone who died from smoking to much pot? People wake up and smell the flowers, the voters won't stand by and let lazy cops bust us, and take our land, and make lazy lawyers take our hard earned money that supports the perverted legal system that makes money off the suffering of people who smoke or eat a flowers just to deal with lifes daily problems.

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"How many times have you heard of a bar room brawl and when was the last time you heard of a pot room brawl?"

I had a friendly convo with an LAPD officer once while attending a march. The subject of pot legalization came up.

He said, and I quote; "You know, I've never had to wrestle anyone to the ground who was stoned. But drunks?"

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