If at First You Don’t Succeed …

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by Dan Bernath

Good news for people who don’t like their local governments wasting time and money challenging laws they don’t like in futile court battles: For the second time, a California court — in this case, the Fourth District Court of Appeals — has tossed challenges to the state’s medical marijuana laws by the counties of San Diego and San Bernardino.


San Bernardino taxpayers had already footed the bill for about $60,000 in salaries alone for this misguided legal adventure when it got tossed the first time way back in December 2006.


San Diego has refused to offer any idea how much they’ve spent on this boondoggle, but according to a January 2006 Evans/McDonough random poll of 500 likely San Diegan voters MPP commissioned, 80% of telephone respondents agreed the Board of Supervisors was wasting money on the lawsuit.


Theoretically, they could take the case to the state Supreme Court, but wouldn’t it be nice if they just obeyed the law, issued the required medical marijuana I.D. cards to qualifying patients, and stopped throwing tax dollars down the sewer?

If at First You Don’t Succeed … — MPP Blog