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).
Their reasoning, all dispensaries in Los Angeles are operated illegally, since they are operated for profit. Since they are illegal they are therefore not immune from prosecution for violation provisions of Senate Bill 420 or Health and Safety Code 11265, otherwise termed "the compassionate use act" of the California codes that make medicinal marijuana de-criminalized for patients and caregivers.
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 observer of the "legal justice system" in Southern 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 prosecute 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.
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