Pubdate: Thu, 16 May 2013 Source: Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA) Copyright: 2013 The Press-Enterprise Company Contact: http://www.pe.com/localnews/opinion/letters_form.html Website: http://www.pe.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/830 Author: Steve Ruddick COURT OVERRULES PEOPLE ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA Court Overrules People It's a sad day for people like me when the state's highest court overrules the will of the people to obtain lawful medical marijuana ("Local governments can ban dispensaries, court rules," May 6). I have a terminal case of liposarcoma. Thank God, I can still go to the drugstore and get my morphine and Xanax. I can't get medical marijuana to help ease my pain and suffering, but I can get hard narcotics. How wrong is that? The court's ruling is an insult to Prop. 215 and SB 420, which made legal having access to medical marijuana in adequate quantities. I can't get my lawful medicine from a regulated and monitored dispensary in San Bernardino County. That leaves me to grow my own, or I can go to Palm Springs to get it from a legal dispensary. I thought SB 420 was supposed to enhance access to the medical marijuana OK'd in Prop. 215. Silly me. Steve Ruddick Angelus Oaks - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom