Cancer Victim Thinks Council Should Reconsider Decision on Medical Marijuana

What have you been up to now?  Banning medical marijuana in Coronado?  Have you no souls, no decency, no sense of compassion?  As as cancer victim, I could not use medical marijuana if I had wanted to because it wasn’t legalized until after my cancer.  If my cancer recurs, I want to be able to avail myself of the law that passed in 1996.  Prop. 215, the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, has brought relief to many, many cancer victims, AIDS patients, the injured, the burned and the dying.  I can tell you I’d have tried it in 1995.  I hear it beats puking in a bucket all day.

For those worried about the political optics, as seems may be the real issue here, Prop. 215 passed 55.6% in favor and 44.4% opposed.  The support for medical marijuana has soared since 1996, as shown by the fact 23 states and...

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