Letter to San Diego City Council About Today's DEA Medical Marijuana Raids

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Letter to San Diego City Council About Today's
DEA Medical Marijuana Raids

January 11, 2012

Dear San Diego City Council,

There were at least three DEA raids in San Diego, today. On the news, they said they were going to continue. I have some very serious concerns.

First, the Drug Enforcement Agency should respect California voters and California law. In 1996, we voted the Compassionate Use Act into law. It grants protection to patients with doctor's recommendations. Why isn't the city of San Diego protecting us from the federal government? Why is local law enforcement helping the feds raid homes and storefronts in San Diego?

In case you haven't read it lately, here is the Compassionate Use Act of 1996.

Next, has anyone considered the financial impact this is going to have on San Diego and California? There were approximately 1500 collectives in San Diego and over 2/3 of them have closed. This means 1000 storefronts are gone. Landlords lost 1000 paying tenants. These collectives received donations from patients for their medicine and they paid their taxes with it. They no longer do this. Plus, these collectives hired patient employees to work for them and now they do not have jobs. Does this coincide with your vision for the city of San Diego?

If it isn't enough that our rights are being violated and our jobs are being lost, has anyone considered the impact on suffering patients? It would be one thing if the government were trying to keep automatic machine guns away from the general public, but it's quite another to work hard to keep medicine away from suffering patients with doctor's recommendations. Wouldn't you agree?

I do not think California doctors would risk their license by recommending medical cannabis to patients who do not need it. You cannot become a doctor overnight. In fact, it requires a great deal of schooling and testing. If these highly educated doctors are recommending medical marijuana for people and critics say they're doing it too liberally, perhaps the critics need to consider the actual dangers of marijuana and the actual benefits of it. Right now, the federal government sits in direct contradiction to science, logic, love and understanding.

Finally, have you considered what the end result of the majority of medical marijuana collectives closing will be? Patients are already saying they're going to drive to Anaheim or Los Angeles to obtain their medication. Patients may also buy it illegally on the street. However, that's not what concerns me the most. What really concerns me is the ones that stay open because they have the power, money and influence to do so. They can obviously hire the most powerful attorneys. Running the little guys out of town is letting the big guys stay in business. When a powerful monopoly exists, it invites all kinds of problems.

Instead of raiding collectives, the federal government should be helping us make sure the medicine that goes through collectives is safe. Right now, any patient can make edibles or pills and donate them to a collective and the collective provides them to their patients. That's it. No testing is required or even done besides ingestion and that's simply not enough. What if a patient doesn't know what he's doing and makes mistakes? What if he or she tampers with it on purpose because they fail to grow it right and they want to get paid for their medication? It could happen if the patient doesn't know what he or she is doing. Why isn't the federal and local government helping patients by testing their medicine? It seems like the right thing to do to me. Doesn't it? Why is their solution to spit on the Compassionate Use Act, kill thousands of jobs, make landlords suffer, hurt San Diego's economy (and its people's state of being) and separate patients from their medicine? It doesn't make any sense.

Thanks for your time. I look forward to your reply.

Sincerely,
Jason Gastrich

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