California's Medical Marijuana Law - Just a Smokescreen?
Tuesday, 17 November 2009 17:35 By Rick Cabral, t r u t h o u t
| Report | name.  Cannabis is weighed at a Sacramento dispensary
for a medical marijuana patient. (Photo: Rick Cabral / t r u t h
o u t)  The medical marijuana debate is gathering steam in
California, as two disparate engines are catapulting headlong
down parallel paths that appear destined to collide in the
distance. The impending collision could chart the future course
on legalization of marijuana in America.  In just the past year,
California has seen a proliferation of "pot doc" ; clinics
sprouting up like wild mushrooms. And prospective medical
marijuana patients are flocking to these clinics like Deadheads
to a Furthur concert.  Meanwhile, California cities and counties
have been racing to enact ordinances banning or placing
moratoria on medical marijuana dispensaries, the same outlets
that supply legal cannabis to medical marijuana patients.  As
usual, the courts will be instrumenta