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Marijuana Greenhouses Set Up by SoCal Senior Citizens

Categories: Marijuana

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Lonnie Painter, 65, rips one.
We have much love for the weed-smoking seniors of Laguna Woods Village in Orange County, a retirement community that marks the epicenter of O.C. conservatism.

About 150 of the 18,000 oldsters there have formed a medical marijuana club and, after their pot gardens were rejected by fellow retirees and then area cops, they've decided to go MacGruber on it.

That's right, these gray-haired geezers got more weed than ...

... Snoop Dogg: They have two off-site, top-secret greenhouses, according to Associated Press.

Since their last grow operation was busted by cops, they're not telling us where their favorite buds are.

Resident and pot smoker Joe Schwartz says:

Look, whether it's a legal thing or not a legal thing, it helps you. I am 90 years old and I don't mind talking about it.

Move over, Colombian cartels. Make way for the mature mafia.

[@dennisjromero/djromero@laweekly.com]


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lousie.thomas420
lousie.thomas420

Some senior people who are suffering from some kind of illness believe that none of the drugs could help them overcome the pain other than marijuana. I feel that marijuana should be legal; especially for some senior citizens with severe chronic pain. It should only be prescribed by a medical doctor. I came across an article, that shows the importance of marijuana for some of the senior citizens who are marijuana patients.

http://bigbudsmag.com/grow/article/marijuana-pharmaceuticals-senior-citizens-thc-rockwool-addiction

malcolmkyle
malcolmkyle

An important aspect of Individual freedom is the right to self-medicate, or to do with yourself as you please, as long as your actions cause no unnecessary suffering or direct harm to others. Some among us may disagree with this, and they should be free to believe what they wish. But the moment they are willing to use force (paid for with our own hard-earned taxes) to impose their will on the rest of us, is the exact same moment that the petty criminals/dealers, the Mafia, drug barons, terrorists and corrupt government officials/agencies enter the equation. The problems created by any possible self-harm then rapidly pale into insignificance as society spirals downwards into a dark abyss, while the most shady characters and black-market corporate entities exponentially enrich themselves in a feeding frenzy likened to that of piranhas on 'prohibition engendered' bath-tub meth.

Every-time the ghastly consequences of prohibition are falsely blamed on the users, it diminishes the culpability of those who are truly responsible for maintaining the status quo. Prohibition is an absolute scourge -the end!  The use of drugs is NOT the real problem, the system that grants exclusive distribution rights to violent cartels and terrorists IS.

When governments prohibit drugs they effectively and knowingly hand a monopoly on their sale to dangerous criminals and terrorists. Without a legal framework in which to operate, these black-market entities can always be expected to settle their disputes violently, while terrorizing many peaceful and innocent citizens in the process. Were the users of alcohol to blame for the St Valentines massacre in 1929? Of course not! It is just as naive to assume that one can compel all the users of Marijuana or Cocaine to  simply quit, as it is to assume that all the users of Alcohol should have stopped drinking after the introduction of alcohol prohibition in 1919. 

Nobody can be expected to obey bad laws, like ones that infringe on logic as well as the fundamental right to decide on what medicine or poison an individual adult may, or may not, ingest. The corruption, violence and death ultimately arising from such bad public policy should always rest squarely on the shoulders of those ignorant imbeciles who are responsible for implementing and supporting such foolishness.

Prohibition is nothing less than a grotesque dystopian nightmare; if you support it you must be either ignorant, stupid, brainwashed, insane or corrupt.

ZZardozz
ZZardozz

When the majority of seniors support the re-legalization of cannabis, the battle will be won.

Dude
Dude

Good for them.

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