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  Los Angeles residents oppose prosecuting medicinal marijuana as
prosecutors prepare for crack down.

November 2, 2:47 PMLA Drug Policy ExaminerCedric Severino1 comment
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Los Angeles residents overhwelmingly oppose prosecuting medicinal
marijuana as prosecutors prepare for crack down, but this deos not
matter to District Attorney Steve Cooley or City Attorney Carmen
Trutanich. In fact, that is no logicial explanation for L.A.'s
prioitizing of marijuana diespenary prosecution now. None.

Los Angelinos County residents clearly don’t mind medicinal marijuana
and aren’t in favor of the plan developed by recently elected City
Attorney Carmen Trutanich or three-term District Attorney Steve Cooley
to crack down on medicinal marijuana dispensaries, which continues to
be reported to be any minute away.

Although any new ordinance passed or policy enforced is unlikely to be
the definitive aspect missing in someone's attempt to fully understand
the Los Angeles Criminal Policy on Medicinal Marijuana Dispensaries,
hopefully they will be able to provide a somewhat coherent reason why
the City Attorney and District Attorney have determined that all
medicinal marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles are operating
illegally and contrary to the thee) all dispensaries in Los Angeles
are operated illegally, since they are operated for profit. And
therefore are not immune from prosecution for violation provisions of
the act that make medicinal marijuana de-criminiazliezed.

Regardless of this information, the new policy about to be put in
effect by the LAPD, is still likely to be met with a huge amount of
resident opposition. For instance, 74 % of Angelinos are in favor of
medicinal marijuana policy, while 54% of Angelinos are in favor of
complete legalization.

As an outside legal overserver of the "legal justice system" in
Sourthern California, I know now see D.A. Cooley use of Los Angeles
County’s incredibly small economic resources toward the pursuit of
“justice,” it must seem to absurd, that just as the Federal Drug
Enforcement Agenicies to depoliticize the use of medicinal marijuana,
so long as medicinal marijuana collective or dispensaries were legal
under state law, that the top two prosecutors for the County and City
of Los Angeles, have now decided to prosectute medicinal marijuana.

I cannot help but feel that is a further demonstration that the Los
Angeles District Attorney’s Office is far more interested in catching
headlines than actually pursuing a justice, and thus, Steve Cooley
only recently seems to have decided that these unchecked dispensaries
are a “menace” requiring resources expenditures Just as Steve Cooley’s
decision to extradite Mr. Roman Polanski, 33 years after he allegedly
committed a crime, and in direct defiance to the victim’s victims
should strike others as a further demonstration that the District
Attorney’s Office should receive additional oversight if it is so
spend its resources in such an arbitrary manner.