A superior court judge issued a ruling Friday stopping Los Angeles from enforcing a moratorium on new medical marijuana dispensaries. Superior Court Judge Anthony Mohr ruled that the city’s deadline was “arbitrary and capricious” because the registration requirement expired in 2007.
It’s been another pathetic week in the war on marijuana, in which the federal government makes a spectacle of itself by redefining the concept of “futile gesture” by — get this — busting 77-year-old music legend Willie Nelson for marijuana, and moving to ban fake pot.
More than 12 years after Washington state voters approved the use of marijuana for medical purposes for those who had terminal or debilitating illnesses and a doctor’s authorization, patients in most of the state still have no clear, legal way to safely acquire cannabis.
Voters in Massachusetts appear to be ready to legalize marijuana in 2012, according to an analysis of the votes on local cannabis legalization advisory ballot questions last Tuesday.
Almost everyone watching the epochal Proposition 19 battle in California — the voter initiative that would legalize and regulate cannabis for adults, and allow its taxation by local governments — realizes that the implications and symbolic significance of the vote goes far beyond the baby steps included in the language of the measure.
