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.
