medicinal marijuana and the children

California voters, that is those citizens who care enough to vote, have resoundingly voted in favor of the legalization of marijuana at least on three separate occasions in various propositions on the California ballot. The people have voted on what the people want. You'd think that would be sufficient, but it never has and at this rate it never will.
The problem with the california citizens who have legally voted for the legaization , to at least a certain extent, is the ability of a few elected officials, no less, to sabotage the voters desire because of their own personal beliefs. No, I don't understand how that can happen, but it has and continues to happen, as a baffled public looks on.
The people have voted for and passed medicinal marijuana propositions, so that medicinal marijuana shall be legally made available for those in need and for those who obtain medical authorization. Simple, right. Not even close.
First, the state approved proposition was met with the federal laws complete prohibition of the use of marijuana and therefore the voices of the people were stilled. Of course, in our democracy, that makes little sense other than vitiating states rights to do much of anything they choose to do for their own state.
Now, when the current president tells the federal authorities to back off and stop closing down cooperatives/dispensaries, that grow and/or dispense marijuana to those in both need and with doctors' prescriptions, the local district attorney, assembly persons, citycouncil persons, mayor, and local school boards persons, have taken matters into their own hands. They've raised the tremendous concern and risk to yo that these laws, and the most recent proposition have, to our school children.
These self righteous, self appointed protectors of our society (see, the PEOPLE of CALIFORNIA voted for this law) have decided that these dispensaries pose a serious drug problem to our schools. The logic is baffling. The users of medicinal marijuana, with doctors prescriptions for medicinal marijuana, after purchasing the medicinal marijuana legally, are somehow going to go directly to the closest schools and either sell the medicinal marijuana to all the school children, or just give evryone a free joint, so they can get the school children hooked on drugs. No kidding, that's the logic used by city council person Hamburger, and assembly person Budweiser, and district attorney Vicodin, and school board person Marlboro, to quelch and stymie the continued wishes of the people of the state of California.
It's alright that there is a pharmacy, a gas station, a liquor store, and a slew of McDonald's in the neighborhood of every school in San Diego, which sell unhealthy and obesity generating foods to all the school children, as well as cigarettes, alcohol and pharmaceutical drugs, all to easy for school children to buy and get their hands on.
Watch out for all those card carrying marijuana users, save the children, because they're heading right to school so they can turn on another unsuspecting youngster. Huh ? As incredible as it sounds, I watched on local television last week various citycouncil persons, schoolboard persons, assembly persons, and the district attorney raise the same old tired and true concerns of drugs coming to the public schools. What a crock. In my 40+ years of smoking grass with countless people from all walks of life, I've never known one individual to ever talk about such jibberish as to want to go to the local schools to turn on our school children. Never. With all of the millions of americans that smoke marijuana regularly, I do not believe that legaized dispensatories are being set up to increase their business by illegally selling medicinal marijuana to the school children at local schools.
This is nothing but a scare tactic from those who choose not to smoke and live for their ability to prevent others from doing so, albeit legally permissible. If these myopic persons would worry about the foods the school children are eating, or the cigarettes they smoke, or the alcohol they're drinking, while driving and on their cell phones, or the vast amount of pharmaceuticals these school children were ingesting, then perhaps we'd have a healthier and more enlightened public.
It's an utter disgrace for some fat politico or ultra religious quasi politico to undermine the will of the voters. I'm tired of watching the same old sad sack faces, who can't manage a budget or provide for their citizens, get the nose right in the middle of something that does not concern them. Jeez, if all these do gooders don't want to smoke pot, then don't, but shut the hell up about what others choose to do.
I've been living in San Diego for 30 years now, and can't recall one outstanding thing that any of these council persons, assembly persons, or governmental officials have done for the city and county of san diego, that didn't personally benefit themselves.
The debate is over. The voters have spoken. If you don't want to listen to the people of your state, don't run for office, and if you did, then resign if you can't abide by the people's wishes.