The Pot Thickens, Those Responsible Hide issue 16

Here’s Lt. Bill Griffin’s response to the legality of the POT FARM on LWV COMMUNITY garden center ground which is COMMON AREA. “The marijuana plot in the Laguna Woods Village was examined by a Sheriff’s Department Narcotics Investigator. It was found to be in compliance with State Law through the Compassionate Use Act. The Sheriff’s Department did not approve the growing of the marijuana.”
Note particularly the last sentence where he said the Sheriff’s Department did not approve the growing of the marijuana. I guess Gail McNulty was talking out of order again when she said the Sheriff had approved it at the United Board meeting on Tuesday, September 8.
Here’s the URL for Senate Bill 420 which makes it legal, in California, to grow and use pot. However, it is still illegal under Federal law. Pay close attention to section 11362.77 (a) which defines exactly how much may be kept/grown/processed and ONLY for an individual. http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/03-04/bill/sen/sb_0401-0450/sb_420_bill_20031012_chaptered.html "A qualified patient or primary caregiver may possess no more than eight ounces of dried marijuana per qualified
patient. In addition, a qualified patient or primary caregiver may
also maintain no more than six mature or 12 immature marijuana plants
per qualified patient." That is about a truck load of dope, folks, for one person. But 4 here of whom 2 are not even members of any mutual in LWV need an entire COMMUNITY garden plot on COMMON AREA.
The response from the Sheriff’s department via Lt. William Griffin, Chief of Police Services, Laguna Woods is too short and actually prompts more questions than he answered. Unfortunately it’s really tough to get the Lt. to respond to queries of any kind. Some of the questions are as follow:
Was the examination of the plot deemed for one person or for how many and were they in compliance with all the requirements of Proposition 215 which is known as the Compassionate Use Act?
A single COMMUNITY garden plot on LWV COMMON AREA would be large enough to produce pot for half the population of LWV. Just how many plants are being grown per qualified person?
When he says “the Sheriff’s Department did not approve the growing of the marijuana” what does he mean exactly? Does he mean to say that the investigator is not part of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department? If not, what agency was represented? Are we to infer that there are non-compliance issues yet to be resolved? Does he mean it is outside the parameters of what can be approved? We are once again left in the limbo of no real answer from the OCSD on this.
Just who are the persons of record for the Compassionate Use of the COMMUNITY garden plot on COMMON AREA ground in LWV?
Exactly how does one go about contacting the Sheriff’s Department Narcotics Investigator to get Compassionate Use ruling? Does the contact person need to be on the City Council? (Which in this case would be tantamount to asking GRF if it was okay. We already know that they think it is just hunky dorey and okay with them based on their little tea party attitude when Ray Gros announced the presence of the garden of the stoned.)
The U.S. Supreme Court has twice upheld the ability of federal officials to enforce federal law despite the protections afforded to patients under state law. The case of Gonzales v. Raich challenged the federal position by claiming that simple cultivation of plant was outside the federal regulatory scheme of interstate commerce. While initially successful in the Ninth Circuit, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down this argument. However, in his opinion, Justice Stevens expressed, while he denied them support at this time, he hoped "the voices of voters allied with these respondents may one day be heard in the halls of Congress." Justice O'Connor wrote in her dissenting opinion stated "This case exemplifies the role of states as laboratories."
It's all about MONEY. We need to FIRE PCM and dissolve GRF before they DESTROY US.