MASSIVE Twitter Update from Zuma Dogg (More on the iconic legend) AND Link To LA Weekly Article on the "Zuma Dogg" Factor Regarding Last Week's Medical Marijuana Collective Bust

1. LOCAL L.A. ACTIVISTS should use Oct 2nd Eagle Rock Music Fest as opportunity to inform tens of thousands to vote AGAINST @JoseHuizar in '11. 3:44 PM Sep 12th via HootSuite

2. Even though despicable degenerate @JoseHuizar turns EVERYTHING into his own re-election event, EAGLE ROCK MUSIC FEST is BACK on Sat., Oct 2. 3:43 PM Sep 12th via HootSuite
* Delete

3. Eagle Rock Music Festival is back - Sat, Oct. 2nd. Lineup out now! http://tinyurl.com/ERMF12 [Even though HUIZAR is involved, GREAT EVENT!] 3:40 PM Sep 12th via HootSuite

4. LA WEEKLY blogs about Zuma Dogg vs Trutanich and Medical Marijuana Collective (non-) law enforcement. http://ow.ly/2DAF4 about 24 hours ago via HootSuite

6. I've been called all-time legendary genius for my ability to entertain masses w nothing but mere improv riffs. You CANNOT top ZD in ratings. about 24 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

7. If I've proven anything, when ZD steps in front of mic/camera, masses of people are entertained/compelled. Isn't that job of radio/tv host? about 24 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

8. NOW STREAMING: Electro-Funk Hits @ http://NetMusicStream.com. (Listen to the music stream ZD programs for himself to listen to all day.) 11:59 AM Sep 13th via HootSuite

10. Electronic, Dub, Reggae, Dance & some Old Skool Rap...http://netmusicstream.com. A net music stream created by ZD to keep him happy, 24/7. 12:43 AM Sep 13th via HootSuite
* Delete

12.
GOSH DARN IT: Bob Denver was stopped on street every day till day he died w people shouting-out "Gilligan." How long until people forget ZD? 11:46 PM Sep 12th via HootSuite
* Delete

14. It's UN-CANNY how the more miserable & terrible a day I'm having, the more ZD shout-outs/recognition happens in a shocking/surprising ways. 11:41 PM Sep 12th via HootSuite
* Delete

15. You probably do UNDER-ESTIMATE ZD's recognition level; cause even today, I was surprised at level. 11:39 PM Sep 12th via HootSuite
* Delete

16. For a guy who almost didn't make it through day, when I DID leave house, awareness level of ZD STILL continues to surprise me. 10 yrs on TV. 11:34 PM Sep 12th via HootSuite
* Delete

21. L.A. activists should make sure EVERYONE among tens of thousands attending Oct. Eagle Rock Fest CANNOT MISS Huizar protest you should throw. 3:48 PM Sep 12th via HootSuite

23. That was some pretty thin ice i was slidin' around on, Sunday. Don't see any magic rabbits in hat, either. about 12 hours ago via HootSuite

* Delete

25. Without Doug McIntyre on morning drive radio and Kevin James bumped to 12 midnight, not gonna be as easy for community to rock the vote. about 13 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

27. DEMOGRAPHIC RANGE: Not many people have teenage fans who want to take pictures with them, along with 70+ year old fans. A valuable trait? about 13 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

28. Why does the word, "legend" come up so much when people refer to me? Legend of what? Never having a paid on-air media gig? Thanks, though. about 13 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

30. Takes an intense and uplifting effort to have random strangers stop in their tracks on street to thank you in deep appreciation and joy. about 13 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

31. ZD SUMMARY: Basically just did a giant 10 yr "crowd-surf" throughout L.A. County and ended up flopping down in chill pad by beach. so be it. about 14 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

33. ZD=Poor Man's Seinfeld: After 9 seasons, Seinfeld retires in mansion with hundreds of millions. ZD retires in HUD housing on food stamps! about 14 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

34. Never thought I'd be in the tiny VIP room of House of Blues with Run-DMC cause bouncer said, "Zuma Dogg doesn't need a VIP pass!" (Thank U!) about 14 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

35. When I sent Deming my review of his 14 Points life's work, thought it was for him to correct errors. Not for letter of praise & publishing. about 14 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

36. Never thought I'd make the impact on un-professional media where Stone Temple Pilots guitarist would shout-out ZD from stage. (UN-CANNY!) about 14 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

37. Ask my friend Jill Stewart what happened 1st time we met at pub in Agoura Hills. Were CONSTANTLY interrupted by people excited to meet ZD. about 14 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

38. HE COULD ONLY WEAR ONE T-SHIRT, THAT DAY: When Adam Sandler made Christmas video for Iraq troops, HE WORE HIS ZUMA DOGG SHIRT IN THE VIDEO! about 14 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

39. When Courteney C-Arquette invited me as guest to hubby David's B-day party, she said, "If not available that day, WOULD MOVE DATE OF PARTY!" about 14 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

40. Kate Hudson told Emilio Estevez @ party, her husband Chris (Robinson/Black Crowes) is, "totally addicted" to ZD Show. (Take that all in.) about 14 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

41. THINK ABOUT IT: ZD Show was on channel 77/98 in most areas but people seemed to be watching, right? Was up against TOP HOLLYWOOD PRIME TIME! [IMAGINE HOW ZD COULD ROCK THE VOTE IF HE HAD REAL PLATFORM?] about 14 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

42. DIDN'T WASTE HIS TIME: The day I asked Gov Schwarz if he knew ZD, he did - and listened. Thing I warned him of, broke in news that evening! about 14 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

43. WHY WOULD HE KNOW ZD? I'M NOT JOHN & KEN/NEWS REPORTER: When I asked Gov Schwarzenegger if he knew ZD, he said, "OF COURSE," and listened. about 14 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

44. "Genius, legend, icon, heroic..." - All things ZD has been called by reporters/DJs in PRO MEDIA, but I never had that luxury to achieve it. about 15 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

45. Considering the level of iconic top-of-mind awareness I created in LARGE area; it was not created by pro media (TV, print, radio) platform. about 15 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

46. MANAGEMENT HAD TO ADMIT: After NYC radio station ranked #1-#2 started sinking, at corporate meeting, "ZD leaving is big reason," was given. about 15 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

47. HAD TO GO AGAINST GRAIN & BREAK EVERY EGG: When I walked into NYC radio station ranked #12 to get it #2 when I left. (MILLIONS to station!) about 15 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

48. I must be the most resourceful, innovative & effective media strategist EVER! Look at the top of mind awareness I created out of NOTHING! about 15 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

49. THINK ABOUT IT: Was trying to think of someone else w high recognition level, like ZD, who did so as mere citizen. (Not with paid media $.) about 15 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

50. Guess I'm just gonna have to face fact that I'm gonna have to spend my days living quiet retirement life in upscale beach & retail area. about 15 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

51. Thought housing would be beginning of a lot of new things, instead of the end of everything. Will have to settle for beach retirement life. about 15 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

52. Looking at level of awareness ZD created by squeezin' out whatever I could on free media, IMAGINE HOW I COULD ROCK VOTE with REAL platform! about 15 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

53. RT@latimes: Jerry Brown apologizes for jab at Bill Clinton's character (Way to piss off #1 political campaign fundraiser! You don't need $!) about 15 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

55. Have some new content worthy of full blog posts (as opposed to tweets) but don't want to "bottlecap" my http://NetMusicStream.com posts. about 16 hours ago via web
* Delete

56. I don't care WHAT you say...I tend to hate dudes that do yoga. Just saw some guys "warmin' up" on the street. They creep me out. about 17 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

57. LATIMES: LA County wants food trucks to carry health letter grades. (That's discriminatory against lower-income operators who can't comply!) about 19 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

58. I DO think the reason L.A. has gone SO OVERBOARD & NUTTY on medijuana laws is because PREVIOUS distributors biz is down & need them closed! about 23 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

59. HOW DO YOU KNOW WHERE L.A. STOPS and Santa Monica STARTS?: When the bike path starts, it's Santa Monica. When it ends, BACK in L.A.! (DOH!) about 23 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

60. The city is FOOLING THEMSELVES if they think the people they are hoping to convert to mass transit will ever do so. TREMENDOUS PAIN IN ASS! about 23 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

61. WILL NEVER RELY ON BUS FOR PLANS: After waiting 25 mins for bus @9AM, didn't stop & had to wait for next one. Could have biked in less time! about 23 hours ago via HootSuite
* Delete

READ HERE: Letter To Medical Marijuana Collectives From (Head Up His Ass) L.A. City Attorney Carmen Titanich (Aka; The Defendant)

Fr: Jackass Douchebag Carmen Trutanich's L.A. Shitty Attorney's Office (Aka: "The Defendant")

To: My Personal Vendetta Victims (Aka: "The Plaintiffs")

Re: Angry head up my ass

Dt: April 4, 2010 (Aka: Lawsuit filing start date)

Dear Business/Property Owner (Not many of THOSE left in L.A.):

On June 7, 2010, Article 5.1 of Chapter IV of the Los Angeles Municipal Code (Medical Marijuana Collective) will become operative. You are being sent this courtesy notice regarding certain limited portions of Article 5.1. We recommend that you review this new article in its entirety, which can be found on the City of Los Angeles website: www.LAcity.org (under Council File Management System, Council File Nos. 08-0923 and 08-0923-S5).

Section 45.19.6.2 of Article 5.1 provides that medical marijuana establishments that registered with the City Clerk prior to November 13, 2007 and that satisfy several listed conditions may register with the City Clerk under the new article and must comply with its requirements within 180 days.

Conversely, Section 45.19.6.7 of Article 5.1 provides that “any existing medical marijuana collective, dispensary, operator, establishment, or provider that does not comply with the requirements of this article must immediately cease operation….”

The establishment at the above referenced address is operating as a medical marijuana provider and did not register with the City Clerk prior to November 13, 2007. Consequently, this establishment does not, and cannot, comply with the requirements of Article 5.1. Under Section 45.19.6.7, this establishment must therefore immediately cease its operations.

Please be further advised that Section 45.19.6.8 (A) of Article 5.1 provides that: “It is unlawful for any person to cause, permit or engage in the cultivation, possession, distribution or giving away of marijuana for medical purposes except as provided in this article, and pursuant to any and all other applicable local and state laws.”

Under this section, a property owner may not permit the premises to be used for any medical marijuana activity, and an operator may not engage in the cultivation, possession, distribution or giving away of marijuana for medical purposes, except as provided in Article 5.1.

Violation of any section of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is a misdemeanor, punishable by six months in jail and/or a $1000.00 fine (LAMC § 11.00 (m)) and a nuisance, subject to a daily civil penalty in the amount of $2500.00 (LAMC § 11.00 (l)). In addition to existing remedies under federal, state, and local law, Section 45.19.6.9 of Article 5.1 authorizes the City to seek injunctive relief, revocation of the certificate of
occupancy for the location, disgorgement and payment of any and all monies unlawfully obtained, costs of abatement, costs of investigation and attorney fees.

For questions or advice regarding Article 5.1, please consult your attorney.

NOTE TO L.A. RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS OWNERS: Get ready for the sales of medical marijuana to spill onto city streets, as in your parks and shopping plazas. Plus, as it used to be PRE-COLLECTIVES, expect many of you to see elevated levels of car traffic down your residential streets as people head back to the dealers selling it out of their homes. (REMEMBER THAT, RESIDENTS?) Way to go "NUCH" TRUTANICH (Aka; "DOUCHE" TITANICH!) A TRU Bully who needs no pulpit. (He IS a "Bully" Pulpit.) Plus, he apparently will lie to your face, as many of us now know. NOT a very admirable quality, Uncle Douche!

NEW AUDIO: Zuma Dogg Radio Shows (LIVE Call-in Show) on Medical Marijuana, Villaraigosa's Subway to the Sea" & ZD's NEW Political Action Committee

Recent Zuma Show's (Zuma Dogg's LIVE Call-in radio shows)

These direct links are provided, but all shows can easily be listened to on the little blue "Blog Talk Radio" widget on the right hand side of this blog and at http://ZumaSHOW.com. (The one link for all ZD podcasts, videos and blog posts/recently updated.)

Zuma Discusses Restore LA (Political Action Committee) with Founder

Los Angeles News Update (10.21.09)

Update on L.A. City News (10.20.09)

Best of Zuma Show (History of Zuma Dogg) 35 mins.

Reminder: Zuma Dogg will be appearing on Mancow Morning Drive Radio Show this Friday. It's a national show with the 9th largest radio audience in the United States. And the good news is none of that audience is in Los Angeles, so it will be a BIG audience of ALL NEW people from across the country as Zuma Dogg brings his message of L.A. City Fraud, Waste and Abuse to the nation. CHECK OUT ZUMA DOGG IN THE GUEST LINE UP on Mancow Website:

ALSO: Zuma Dogg is working with a NEW Political Action Committee (PAC) called, "Restore LA," a non-profit 527 run by Anthony who also has a phone bank of 1000 plus phone lines with is own Internet Voice Protocal system like Vonage -- and people from across the city, county...and across the country can "phone bank" from their home, on their computer, for free without using their phone or minutes, with only a basic computer headset that you simply plug into your computer. THEN, the phone touch pad pops up on your computer and the list of phone numbers appear for you to call, along with the script. POWER TO THE PEOPLE IS HERE!

THE TECHNOLOGY IS HERE, and Anthony from Restore LA is the guy who put it together, including the Political Action Committee (political infrastructure) for us to "take back the city, county (and country)!"

ZumaShow.com for it ALL! (See "Restore LA" link)

A Message From Jane Usher of City Attorney's Office On Medical Marijuana: "There is considerable misinformation circulating on this topic.

NUCH, YOU ARE MAKING A SERIOUS MISTAKE IF YOU BAN EDIBLES. THAT IS A BREAKING POINT FOR ZUMA DOGG ON THIS ISSUE. EDIBLES PROVIDE MORE RELIEF AND BENEFIT THAN FLOWERS (MARIJUANA) FOR MANY PEOPLE WHO CANNOT SMOKE. I AM COMPLETELY 100% ANY ORDINANCE THAT BANS EDIBLES AND I AM COMPLETELY 100% AGAINST ANYONE WHO TRIES TO BAN THEM. AND I LOVE YOU NUCH, AND I GET OUT THERE AND STICK UP FOR YOU WHEN I SEE FIT, BUT THERE IS A RE-CALL BEING DISCUSSED -- AND IF EDIBLES ARE OFF BANNED...

AND, I sure as HELL don't like this from CBS 2 News:

The city attorney's office on Tuesday delivered a draft of a proposed ordinance that would be among the most restrictive in the state. It would force most pot dispensaries to close immediately and wait six months to reapply for permission to reopen. It also would ban over-the-counter sales. (WHY WOULD NUCH FORCE THEM TO CLOSE IF THEY HAVEN'T BEEN PROVEN TO HAVE DONE ANYTHING WRONG, YET? CAN'T JUST GO OFF HUNCHES, MY MAN! The ban was invalid, so you can't go after them for opening up in violation of that. So get some BASIC, EASY regulations (not the over-reaching bullshit you are trying to pass that will get you sued to timbucktoo)...then get out there and inspect them like restaurants and bars.


Proposed L.A. Medical Marijuana Ordinace -

From: Jane.Usher@lacity.org
To: ATTY.NEIGHBORS@lacity.org
Sent: 10/21/2009 3:52:18 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time
Subj: Permanent Medical Marijuana Ordinance

Dear Neighbors --

We are writing to provide you with an update regarding medical marijuana in this City. There is considerable misinformation circulating on this topic. We hope to inform you and to encourage you to share your views in this matter with the City Council. We do not have a City Council hearing date, but will write again once the day and time are known. Our proposed medical marijuana ordinance is attached.

1. What is the law? Both state and federal law ban and criminalize the sale of marijuana. California voters created an exception for the seriously ill in our 1996 Compassionate Use Act. This Act and its implementing state legislation immunize "qualified patients" and their "primary caregivers" from criminal prosecution if their only conduct is the collective cultivation of medical marijuana for personal use to treat specific serious illnesses. The Compassionate Use Act ballot argument stated that the Act would not allow the sale of marijuana. The California Supreme Court has confirmed that this is our law. On Monday, the Obama administration also advised us that the federal government will honor California law.

2. What has happened in Los Angeles? California cities are authorized to write their own local regulations governing access to medical marijuana, consistent with state law. Los Angeles has yet to take this step. As Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Chalfant ruled this week, our temporary rules have expired. Even so, to date, they were not being enforced. In this vacuum, as many as 1,000 marijuana dispensaries have opened in Los Angeles for the commercial sale of marijuana. No one knows the sources for the vast citywide quantity of marijuana, but it is apparently not the result of cultivation by patients and caregivers. Unlike for every other product that we consume or ingest, there is no local, state, or federal agency that oversees the quality, content, and potential threat of chemical or foreign matter contamination. Moreover, the increased crime at and around the pot shops is taxing our police force and our neighborhoods.

3. What is the next step? Los Angeles needs to adopt regulations about where and how true medical marijuana collectives can operate. The City Attorney transmitted this office's draft ordinance to the City Council yesterday. The draft enables collective cultivation for compassionate use, but does not allow the outright sales that Los Angeles is currently experiencing. Once the City adopts a permanent ordinance, we can begin to close shops operating illegally and monitor legitimate collectives that lawfully provide medical marijuana to residents in need.

4. How can you help? Marijuana advocates who want to legalize retail sales turn out in force for the City Council hearings on this topic. While it is also common for the hearings to include a handful of chronically ill patients who rightfully deserve access to medicinal marijuana, most speakers appear to be profiteers, with little compassion for patients and much concern for their personal pocketbooks. These profiteers are well organized and are confident that they can ride roughshod over this City. Who is missing from these hearings? Missing are the pot shop customers, ranging in age from 14 to 30, who are not in medical need of marijuana but, rather, are recreational users. More importantly, you are missing. It is critical that you and your neighbors be heard. The downside risk is too great that this City will continue to be the lawless Wild West for unregulated marijuana shops and their attendant crime and social ills.

Many thanks for reading. Please let the City Council know your views. Please write or email us back with your questions.

Jane Usher

Zuma Dogg Speaks on L.A. City Situation Regarding Medical Marijuana Collectives

Today's Most Clicked POSTS - BNN California Statewide Ranker (6/6/09)

• 1. Zuma Dogg Sunday TWITTER Rantings (Better Than UFC Showdown: Obama vs Villaraigosa, Coming Soon To Cable News?)
  
• 2. Lois Kazakoff: Coast Guard prepares for global warming
  
• 3. Starry, Starry Night at Mount Rushmore: The Night Vision of Wally Pacholka
• 4. Gary Kamiya On The Crisis
• 5. Palin Is Not A Defeated Woman, Not A Beaten Politician

ZD ON CITY EVER LISTENING TO COMMUNITY: As far as I have seen over the past three years, and sad to say it will probably remain so, the only way to get the city’s attention on an issue to demand legal compliance where there is not (Aka: When you are being screwed by the city) is to file a lawsuit. Public comment is great, but if I were an attorney, or had one to represent me, you may as well stay home, don’t contact your councilmember, just go straight to lawsuit. It’s the only way I have seen for the most part. They will keep talking and talking and talking and telling you whatever you want to hear…UNTIL THEY LOSE IN COURT. CIVIL ATTORNEYS…START YOUR ENGINES!

MEDICAL MARIJUANA COLLECTIVES: The July issue of LA JEMM is bigger than the last issue, which intially caught my attention how out of control the collective situation has become. The city let this mess get out of hand. Now it will be up to new City Attorney Carmen Truanich to take action to shut down the illegal ones.

ZD and the City will NEVER agree/see eye to eye on a lot of this stuff; however a bunch of these collectives DID open up while waiting for hardship exemption approval, EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO.

People knew the old city attorney (Rocky Delgadillo) wasn't doing anything about it, cause he was too busy cashing his "pay to play" checks and cutting those rollover deals...so they opened up, since they knew the city wasn't doing anything about it.

WELL, now that it is ABOVE the radar, instead of below, the city is going to have to get up out of it's seat and start swatting the flies back. Letters have already gone out to some collectives who have been denied the hardship exeptions recently, notifiying them the meter is ticking on a $1000 a day "violation" ticket they could be called onto the carpet at anytime for if they do not shut down immediately.

I don't feel sorry for these collectives that opened up "under the radar" operating under the guise nothing was going to happen. That's the chance you take and I hope you made out alright and didn't get burnt too bad if you have to close (hope you didn't invest in expensive furniture and decorations and whatnot); but...although the battle is just beginning, and the city attorney's office is spread pretty thin...looks like the city is at least starting the process of going through the motions to try and shut down the collectives that opened up illegally in violation of the ICO.

I THINK THE PROBLEM HERE IS THAT THE CITY STILL DOES NOT HAVE ANY RULES AND REGULATIONS IN PLACE. IF THE DUMB CITY WOULD JUST APPROVE SOME RULES, THEN THEY COULD START ENFORCING THE LAW AND MANY OF THESE CO-OPS WILL JUST GO AWAY CAUSE THEY WON'T EVEN WANT TO TRY AND COMPY WITH ALL THE STUFF/WON'T BE ABLE TO AND THEY WILL EITHER CLOSE OR BE BUSTED EASILY.

So my advice is, don't get too caught up in certain micro details that will keep it from being passed easily. Don't get too caught up in the 1000 feet rule. If you get the basic rules and regulations put into place, a lot of them will close up, like I said, and that will take care of it.

And remember, the problem here also is that doctors wrote too many prescriptions and the demand is now there and the city cannot get into the mindreading business and decide that "people aren't really sick/don't really need the medication." If you close too many for the wrong reasons, you will really start to see problems at the exitisitng collectives with too much patient traffic causing too many REAL problems.

(I JUST KNOW THE CITY IS GONNA SCREW THIS UP.)

I DO THINK IT IS B.S. THAT THE CITY IS USING THE ARGUMENT, "Gee, Zuma Dogg, even the 'So and So Association of Marijuana' agrees the collectives should be at least 1000 feet apart and that there are too many." YEAH, it's called wanting the biggest piece of the pie! Of course they don't want to added competition and want the other guys shut down. DON'T BE SPUN CITY COUNCILMEMBERS...you're dumb, remember?

AND, To: L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich, THE CITY IS SENDING OUT LETTERS TO THESE COLLECTIVES THAT THEY DO NOT RECEIVE UNTIL SATURDAY (THE EARLIEST THOSE WHO RECIEVEDTHEM GOT THEM, FOR A MONDAY MEETING!) Is that LEGAL?

SCENARIO: You have an 8:30 AM hearing on a MONDAY, in which you are fighting for the right of your business, requiring legal documents, attorneys to be present and the entire matter -- IN WHICH THERE IS NO APPEAL PROCESS...AND YOU SEND THE LETTERS OUT ON FRIDAY, AND THE EARLIEST PEOPLE GO THEM WAS ON SATURDAY...A NON-BUSINESS DAY. So you walk into your office on Monday morning at 9am or 10am or whenever...and you open your letter you got on Saturday, telling you that your hearing is at 8:30am on Monday.

FUCK YOU CITY HALL..AND COUNCILMEMBER JOSE HUIZAR WAS, ONCE AGAIN, MENTIONED BY NAME TO ZUMA DOGG AS BEING AN ESPECAILLY UNATTENTIVE, NON-ATTENTION PAYING, FINGERNAIL CLIPPING, JUST WANTING TO HURRY IT ALONG DICK. (Sorry Jose, I know we run in the same social circles and we have a nice relationship as gadfly/councilwrecker...BUT WHY DOES YOUR NAME ALWAYS COME UP.

I WAS JUST TALKING TO SOMEONE FOR THE FIRST TIME, WHO I HAVE NEVER MET, AND IS NOT A CD 14 ACTIVIST, AND HE DIDN'T LIKE YOU AT MONDAY'S MEETING, AT ALL. NEITHER DID THE PERSON I SPOKE WITH FROM THE LAST MEETING. Jose, you are making me look bad. I cannot keep sticking up for you and saying, "He's not that bad, he's just stuck with all of Villar's illegal corruption that he has to deal with, but he's alright." I CAN'T GO TO BAT FOR YOU ANYMORE. You should step down, Jose Huizar, I don't think you have what it takes to run a council office or do your job at a PLUM meeting.

So to summarize, although ZD sees it is a joke how these medical marijuana collectives have popped up all over the place without any regulation; I DO NOT LIKE SOME OF THE PROPAGANDA BULLSHIT THE PEOPLE AGAINST THE CO-OPS ARE PUTTING OUT THERE, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME, I DO NOT CARE THAT A BUNCH OF CO-OPS TELL THE COUNCILMEMBERS "EVEN WE THINK THERE ARE TOO MANY AND SHOULDN'T BE WITHIN 1000 FEET OF EACH OTHER." ....OF COURSE THESE PEOPLE WANT LESS COMPETITION.

So looks like ZD may once again be the only person who has a fair, unbiased opinion in this topic of which I am very familiar with on a citywide level.

AND I KNOW ONE THING...THESE 28 DISPENSARIES THAT WERE DISPENSED WITH BY THE CITY LAST MONDAY DURING THE PLUM MEETING SHOULD LOOK INTO WHETHER IT IS LEGAL TO SEND OUT A LETTER ON FRIDAY, THAT YOU GET ON SATURDAY...AT THE EARLIEST, FOR A MONDAY 8:30AM CITY HEARING.

California Lawmakers Want Obama To Better Explain It's Medical Marijuana Policy

Lawmakers press for clear medical pot policy

By Josh Richman
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Both the California Legislature and Congress want the Obama Administration to better explain its policy on medical marijuana.

State Senator Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, late Monday introduced a joint resolution (no puns please) urging the federal government to end medical marijuana raids in California and to “create a comprehensive federal medical marijuana policy that ensures safe and legal access to any patient that would benefit from it.”

The Obama Administration has signaled a willingness to change federal policy – saying it’ll raid only traffickers who masquerade as medical dispensaries, using states’ medical marijuana laws as a shield – but hasn’t yet produced a clear implementation plan. (Sounds like L.A. City Council.) There’ve been several raids in California since the apparent shift, leaving federal agents and prosecutors in the awkward position of determining who is and isn’t obeying state law.

Leno’s resolution, SJR 14, not only asks President Obama and Congress to “move quickly to end federal raids, intimidation, and interference with state medical marijuana law,” but also asks the federal government to establish “an affirmative defense to medical marijuana charges in federal court and establish federal legal protection for individuals authorized by state and local law…” Under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2005 ruling in the Oakland-based Gonzales v. Raich case, marijuana defendants can’t defend themselves in federal court using a medical or state-law defense.

“Patients and providers in California remain at risk of arrest and prosecution by federal law enforcement and legally established medical marijuana cooperatives continue to be the subjects of federal raids,” Leno said in a news release. “This resolution will clearly state the Legislature’s opposition to federal interference with California’s medical marijuana law and support for expanded federal reform and medical research.”

Meanwhile, the House Appropriations Committee is pushing for clarity in the Obama administration’s policy by adding language to the Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill.

Sponsored by Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y., the language states, “There have been conflicting public reports about the Department’s enforcement of medical marijuana policies. Within 60 days of enactment, the Department shall provide to the Committee clarification of the Department’s policy regarding enforcement of federal laws and use of federal resources against individuals involved in medical marijuana activities.”

Hinchey and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Huntington Beach, in each of the last several Congresses have sponsored an amendment aimed at ending Drug Enforcement Administration raids on state-legal medical marijuana patients and providers.