MY SAN JOSE SPEECH

I am a local attorney who uses medical marijuana for arthritis pain. Sending me to the industrial district to purchase my medicine is both dangerous and difficult for me.

For ten thousand years, marijuana has been considered to be a safe and effective medicine.  It has never been the direct cause of a single death.

I am tired of watching this city council try to gain political points by passing measures that harm the disabled.

Thanks to your no free grocery bag ordinance, I watch the disabled get handed loose items to carry on their laps, because they forgot to purchase a bag.

This is the second time you have tried to sneakily outlaw the sale of medical marijuana.

But the worst is that you are trying to convince people that disabled police officers and their doctors are lying about their disabilities. You do not want to give police officers decent disability pensions.  After all, you need money for your doomed quest to steal a baseball team from Oakland.

(At this point, the audience clapped, which was counted against my 1 minute, so I was not able to say...)

If you vote for this measure, I will do my best to insure that you never get elected to anything ever again.

(BTW I was told that the numerous complaints from dentists were caused by SAN JOSE ORGANICS on Tully Rd. PLEASE DO NOT BUY FROM THESE PEOPLE. Maybe putting them out of business will teach them to be polite to their neighbors.)