Van: WAMM's grow spot is in the County, but it's distribution spot has been, I have again confirmed, in the City and in a location unauthorized by the ordinance.

Sheriff's haven't busted their grow area, and been publicly very friendly with WAMM. Of course, when the DEA came, sheriffs reportedly facilitated the DEA seizure by clearing the road of protesters.

City officials and police, however, have allowed WAMM to operate in violation of their own stupid laws (written in consultation with WAMM but not other groups). That has been a "wink and nod" relationship.

This is obviously a good thing for the 250+ patients that WAMM serves, but a bad thing for the 1000-1700 that are left to wander the levy in search of medical marijuana. And it is clearly bad public policy.

We need explicit public policy that serves all the medical marijuana users in this County, not just the favored few.
Having Krohn, who's done nothing about this well-known crisis for the last four years, preen and posture in front of the cameras, and not use the national opportunity to press for some local legal action to project the majority of medical marijuana users is a sad sad thing.

For the rest, I believe my facts are accurate.

Folks should phone Mayor Krohn (420-5023) and demand he put an item on the next City Council agenda (1) declaring a medical emergency, (2) setting aside a piece of City property as a grow area, (3) regularly organizing police-protected medical marijuana giveaways until such time as private distributors are protected from federal terrorism, and (4) doing something about the broader drug war on marijuana, which the City has no business being in.

Since he is not running for re-election, he has nothing to lose by trying to lead instead of smiling, handshaking, and chattering cliches before the cameras.

--Robert Norse