Who is this guy?
Someone has wondered if I'll comment on the Garden Brothers. I assume you mean the pot bust in the city of Ukiah last week. I'm all for it. I was a friend of Cherrie Lovett, who died of complications from lupus but worked tirelessly on getting Prop. 215 passed because she smoked pot to give herself an appetite and to avoid taking much stronger meds like morphine, which her doctor would have prescribed her otherwise. I supported and continue to support Prop. 215. In fact, it's not secret that I support simply legalizing marijuana and regulating and taxing it. What I have seen with Prop. 215, however, is an increasing openness by drug dealers to treat the law like a license to simply do their business without fear of reprisal. I don't really care whether the brothers that were arrested on Garden Street were growing pot for medical marijuana patients. Even if that's true, I don't believe Prop. 215 or its supporters meant for its implementation to include large, smelly marijauna gardens in crowded residntial neighborhoods. It's the same reason the city doesn't allow a person to have, say, a pig farm, next door to you in a residential neighborhood.
Further than that, I also have seen Prop. 215 turned into what I consider a huge money making scheme by growers who grow hundreds of pounds of marijuana and then take it down to the Bay Area and sell at street prices to medical marijauna patients. That's indecent as far as I'm concerned. (I'm also convinced a lot of that pot simply ends up in the bedroom drawers of recreational users.) These growers act like they'e doing the world such a service by providing for the sick, but they are only interested in the money they can make doing it. If they were required to simply give the pot away once it was grown, believe me the gardens would dry up.
I would love it if some brave government entity would simply declare itself the provider and regulator of medical marijuana - which under Prop. 215 is perfectly legal - and start a government garden (say, at the jail) and distribute medical marijauna to patients who can't grow it themselves. Anyone else would be considered an illegal grower.
A number of people have asked me what I did to Patrick Bateman to make him so mad.
I have no idea, I don't know him.
It's a shame for the folks in the White House that someone with the email user name "I'm4bush" would be such a nasty person. But, I love it that while he's doing his best to insult me personally and the Daily Journal in general (even with the tired old 'urinal' insult every editor of every newspaper with the name Journal has heard sooner or later from some yahoo) he prefaces his comments with the fact that he reads the Daily Journal "every day."
Go ahead and insult me Patrick, as long as you're reading.