From San Diego's News 8:
A lawsuit claims that the San Diego District Attorney's Office and other agencies are violating California's medical marijuana law by investigating doctors who treat medical marijuana patients.
The suit, filed by Dr. Alfonso Jimenez in San Diego Superior Court, names as defendants the San Diego County District Attorney's Office, District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and one of her deputies, as well as the San Diego Police Department, its chief, William Lansdowne, and several individual officers, along with the Laguna Beach Police Department, its chief of police and a detective.
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The suit alleges that the defendants have conspired with the Drug Enforcement Administration to violate a federal injunction against initiating an investigation of a physician solely on the ground that a doctor makes a recommendation for medical marijuana based on his or her medical judgment.
I have an appt. w/ Dr. Jimenez tomorrow. It will be interesting to talk w/ him about this. He moved his office out of San Diego b/c of the pressures down here and now serves SD out of his OC office.
The more and more I read about this stuff the more I realize that the those who are charged with enforcing the law are breaking it to serve a cultural and political agenda of the right.
Let the battle begin, I say.
Posted by: mccamman | August 29, 2008 at 09:17 AM
re "breaking it to serve a cultural and political agenda," I think that's exactly correct. But the current is shifting around this stuff. Something's gotta give.
Posted by: Alex | August 29, 2008 at 04:38 PM