SF district atty distances self from anti-cannabis memo, 'unequivocally supports medical marijuana'
Source: San Francisco Bay Guardian
Don't believe everything you read, especially when it comes out of the District Attorney's office. D.A. George Gascon's press representative Stephanie Ong Stillman says a memo covered in this week's Herbwise column circulated earlier this month outlining the "continued illegality of selling marijuana" -- even in state regulated cannabis dispensaries -- was sent out without Gascon's knowledge and "does not represent his views on medical marijuana."
... This is -- unequivocally -- good news for San Francisco's medical cannabis patients. The memo (signed by assistant district attorney John Ullom) stated that cannabis dispensaries were acting under protection of state law were perpetrating "a marijuana mega-myth." According to the East Bay Express, it was released in response to indignation expressed by an unnamed dispensary's deliveryperson was apprehended by law enforcement.
But Stillman says the brief was written over three years ago, before Gascon was elected to office. Calling it "a template brief," she says it's not the first time the memo has been circulated in response to legal questions about cannabis -- but that it has not been since Gascon has been in office, and will not be used again under his administration.
... The Guardian just recieved a call from Gascon himself, who confirmed Stillman's comments, saying "I've already taken steps to make sure that this will not happen again."
Read more: http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2012/03/28/district-attorney-retracts-brief-unequivocally-supports-medical-marijuana
