Drug Czar Mixes Cannabis, Caffeine, and Cartography With Catastrophic Results
The Drug Czar claimed today that San Francisco has more medical marijuana dispensaries than Starbucks coffee shops.
As we've noted previously, state "medical" marijuana laws breed confusion, abuse, and violence in neighborhoods and communities.Here's our latest analysis of this phenomenon. In downtown San Francisco alone, there are 98 marijuana dispensaries, compared to 71 Starbucks Coffee shops
As is typical considering the source, this is just totally wrong. There are 25 medical marijuana dispensaries in San Francisco, not 98. I contacted Americans for Safe Access today and they had no idea what’s up with this crazy map. Most of the "dispensaries" on the map simply don’t exist. It’s incomprehensible. My best guess is that they’re including doctors' offices, which might write prescriptions, but certainly don’t provide medicine. It might be something even crazier and more dishonest than that.
The thing is, everyone in San Francisco knows where the dispensaries are. They’re only allowed in certain areas. It’s not a secret. This page includes a list of addresses for all of them and, believe me, a lot of people wish it were longer.
So if "marijuana laws breed confusion" as the drug czar claims, it would appear that the confusion remains confined to his office. Regardless of how many Starbucks and medical marijuana dispensaries there are, there is only one place to go if you’re looking for worldclass bullshit drug war propaganda maps.
ONDCP's fake marijuana dispensary map
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Comment posted by Giordano on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 12:04amIt must be tough defending prohibition when all you have left is lies.
So does Walters condemn San Francisco because the city is associated with medical cannabis? Or does he condemn marijuana because it’s associated with San Francisco? However it’s framed, it’s an insult to San Francisco, one of the greatest cities in the world.
It’s clear Walters’ is focusing on S.F. because, like most other religious wackos, he thinks the city is the recent incarnation of Sodom and Gomorrah. Obviously, the same inferences would not be possible if Walters targeted medical marijuana clinics in cities such as Portland, Oregon or Great Falls, Montana.
Walters is the ultimate ingrate and hypocrite. He should keep in mind that the types of creative and productive people one finds in San Francisco constitute the reason that he and others like him are not sitting in caves at this moment picking lice out of their hair.
Giordano
Gee, the drug czar tells a lie
Comment posted by rita on Fri, 11/07/2008 - 6:56amAnd you're surprised . . . why?
Beyond Sad
Comment posted by puregenius on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 10:28amI will have to send this out to the local news networks and hope they run with it. Given that the post claims there are 98 in downtown alone, I wonder how many they would claim are in the entire city. 250 maybe?