2009-10-26 Out front of the courthouse in San Diego today, We met a lady in a walker,. She was in obvious poor health, elderly, black, spanish speaking. She'd been jailed for 11 days by jack booted thugs from SDPD who raided her house based upon information from her landlord. Her case is pending... We will help her, won't we folks!  

08:15AM CD220943-01 PRELIMINARY EXAM CALL CA vs FARINAS, LUCIA HEBIA 

For the last 14 months, one caregiver, and his family, has lived a nightmare. Joe Malone faced drug charges for dispensing medicine to sick

people. He plead quilty today, though innocent, taking a plea bargain which will keep him out of jail. God Bless him.

2009-10-26 Amnesty for all! Let my people go!

Stacy and Nunes are former providers of medical marijuana now facing federal charges for illegally selling the drug from storefront businesses ...

10 23 2009 

Last night's 'performance' at the CNOA awards ceremony at the DoubleTree hotel was a supreme disappointment to me, as a medical cannabis advocate. So much so, that we are re-evaluating our tactics. They are not working. We need something new. There was one dispensary 'director', and a handful of patients, along with a very few hard-core activists. 

The dispensary guy spent his time chatting with a minister and another gentleman who came outside to see what the commotion was about on the street. They had a nice dialog where they agreed on some minutia about prop 215, sb420 et al (whats legal, can you make a profit, blah blah blah). Meanwhile the protest/rally continued. 

Too bad the reporter from Channel Six left early, he missed a police assault on a patient. I guess he had to make his deadline (he filmed twenty minutes or so, they played about 20 seconds of it on the ten o'clock news).

One of the local medical cannabis activists went inside, (leaving her signs outside with us). She was grabbed by the wrist as she approached some plain clothes cops. They grabbed her cell phone and threatened to 'shove it up your ass'. 

When she tried to file a police report, they took her outside, saying 'some of those guys are undercover with the cartel in Mexico, and their lives are in danger'.

Bullshit, they chose that life. They, and their bosses, and the District Attorney, all view the holy herb as a drug, for which we should go to jail, like the heroin/crack/swag gangs..... we are not criminals. This is the reason we protest, we are concerned citizens.

Sure, there were a few people there with signs, the usual suspects. You know, long haired wild men, a few sedate older citizens, a couple of young folks with tats. A mild mannered attorney, and of course the colorful Donna Lambert. Eugene was there full of hope, all fired up, with a handful of ASA (San Diego) herb heroes. Besides the random kid who rolled up on his bike and picked up a sign to help out, that was it.

We were outnumbered. There were more cops (inside and outside in their cars and walking around) than humans. Some of the cops flipped us off as they drove past, men and women alike. 

Pathetic.

"Why is a free society so terrified of trusting adults to make responsible decisions? Its hypocritical foolishness"

Joseph D. McNamara, a retired deputy inspector of the New York Police Department and former police chief of San Jose, Calif.,

and research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. 

Obama and his minions dither over herb's legality, while heroin production soars under the CIA's watch; more than under the Taliban!

"Opium Still Fueling Terrorism in Afghanistan," Radio Australia, Oct. 23, 2009