Nada y Todo

Apparently it seems an over zealous San Diego County supervisor, Bill Horn, is leading the county’s crusade to persuade the federal government that medical marijuana is illegal.  Sadly there are a few problems with Mr. Horn’s efforts, the first being the 10th Amendment, the second being the fact that this crusade is being performed without a democratic vote of the people who encompass the county.

“You have a conflict here between federal and state law, and we are in the middle. What we have been asking all along is which takes precedence here. We will take it as far as we can take it and get a definitive answer.”

- Fifth District Supervisor Bill Horn

There should be no question here in this case which law takes precedence. The 10th Amendment clearly states that the Federal Government only has the powers to relegate matters appointed to it, by the constitution. How this amendment can be twisted and warped to one’s agenda is beyond me, but sadly persons with a greater agenda will always attempt to interpret the Bill or Rights for their own cause.  However, if common sense isn’t a trait one might possess, the US Supreme Court refused to review a medical marijuana case in December of 2008 stating an appellate decision from November 2007 stating “It is not the job of local police to enforce federal drug laws”.

We know that the 10th Amendment clearly allows our medical marijuana laws to override the federal drug laws,  making medical marijuana legal in states that have passed legislation, but what I would like to hear Bill Horn’s as well as the San Diego County Board of Supervisors’  justification for attempting such action.  California voters as well as your county’s voters voted as a majority to allow medical marijuana.  Not only is the county fighting a losing battle in which the Constitution should once again rightly prevail, but you are also throwing tax payer money down the drains.  Your job, people of San Diego, is to hold these “elected officials” responsible for such a gross mismanagement of time as well as tax payer money.  Oh and remember, stay classy San Diego.

Out here in the bright sunny state of California we have ourselves a severe budget crisis.  Instead of our elected representatives fixing this problem they choose to squabble back and forth.  Republicans want to cut services, Democrats want to raise taxes, however due to California’s two thirds majority voting, the two sides can never come to an agreement.  State Controller, John Chiang, has announced that state tax refunds, welfare, and disability payments will begin being delayed by thirty days as of February 1st.  California is already drowning in our own debt and all our elected officials can do is bicker back and forth like school children.  Come to think of it, the Governator suggested that our state representatives work for free as of June in his State of the State address last night.  This was met by silence from our fine elected representatives.

Our state’s citizens are being punished by our representatives who can do little more then squabble back and forth.  Sadly most of the people who will end up complaining about this situation insist on pointing fingers at the governor, instead of the real culprits, their elected representatives.  Still do this day it amazes me on this prior ballot we can have issues to limit the amount of animals on a farm, take away the right to marriage from the gays and pass a $10 Billion Proposition to build a high speed rail, yet we can’t balance a god damned budget.  Perhaps our citizens will wake up one of these days, and hold their representatives accountable for driving our state into the ground.