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What Readers Say About Torrance Marijuana Dispensaries Issue
Daily Breeze | 08/04/2006

Today we publish answers to our Question of the Week. We'll ask another question Sunday and await your answers.

This week's question: "What should be the priority for Torrance's City Council -- upholding the federal ban on medical marijuana or allowing patients with doctors' recommendations to have a degree of access to the drug?"

(The Torrance City Council this week voted to deny business licenses to medical marijuana dispensaries.)
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Congress members are not medical doctors or scientists. They should stop kidding us and themselves when they insist that they know more than these professionals. If a doctor feels something is beneficial for his patient or researchers need certain disposable cells to experiment with, Congress should not prevent it by inventing or using a ban to force their morals down everyone else's throats.

Hopefully, Torrance's City Council is smart enough to allow doctors -- and not politicians -- to treat the illnesses of their constituents.

-- CHRISTINE A. BREAN

Gardena
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I don't think the Torrance City Council should be making decisions regarding medical marijuana. I feel they should focus their activities on what a city is supposed to do -- which is maintain the infrastructure and conduct of the business of the city. I do believe medical marijuana is something that is of benefit to residents of the city who need it, and I regret their action (Tuesday) night. I believe it's going to have untold effects that they haven't considered.

-- ANDREA WAGNER

Torrance
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I feel that medical marijuana should be allowed because, No. 1, it's natural, and a lot of these other drugs have so many side-effects, and they're just too dangerous to take nowadays. Most of the people who do it do it for the feeling that you don't feel pain, not for the high of it. So, if that works, why not let them? They're not hurting anybody. They're at home in their private residence, and they have their rights protected in the First Amendment.

-- RICHARD GARIBAY

San Pedro
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Leave it to Hooterville, I mean Torrance, to turn its back on medical marijuana. I guess if it doesn't have a TV commercial, is effective for a wide range of conditions (yet is without side effects) and -- most importantly -- doesn't have a drug company logo, it just can't work.

Try to sell that one to cancer and AIDS patients, migraine sufferers and those with epilepsy, among others.

Then try to sell them that beachfront property in Las Vegas.

-- JOHN CONYNE

Redondo Beach