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Marijuana? In San Francisco? Just Say Grow 
Posted by CN Staff on July 24, 2002 at 17:52:18 PT
By Rob Morse
Source: San Francisco Chronicle 
Ah, San Francisco. The city can't provide potties, but it can provide pot. Frustrated by federal resistance to medical marijuana, Supervisor Mark Leno wants San Francisco to go into the business of growing its own marijuana in empty city lots. This raises several questions: How much will the city have to spend on chain-link fence and armed guards to protect its crop? 
Why not use eminent domain to take over all the existing pot patches? If the city grows its own pot, will it be better or worse than the stuff already available? Who's going to give up Acapulco Gold for San Francisco Brown? Planting marijuana in empty lots beats the mayor's idea of planting high- rises -- a better kind of high. And if San Francisco can become a drug- exporting nation, the city won't have to raise taxes. Medical marijuana is just the thing to treat Nasdaq panic attacks, Dow Syndrome and portfoliophobia. Just say grow. Union Square reopens Thursday, and this space that had gone to pot (in the nonmedicinal sense) is looking very sharp. The large expanse of green and tan granite makes it look like a postmodern St. Mark's Square. The polished curved granite at each corner of the square makes the space inviting to the public, but it'll probably be inviting the shopping-cart brigades and kids with skateboards, too. As in Yerba Buena Gardens, all wheeled vehicles except wheelchairs eventually may be banned. Linda Mjellem of the Union Square Association says skateboarders will be repelled from the many granite steps by handrails -- so many it looks like the city is raising handrails as a cash crop. "I don't think there are many challenges for skateboarders here -- other than the challenge of being asked not to skateboard," said Mjellem. But isn't that the main challenge? Rob Morse's column appears Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Snipped:  Complete Article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/07/24/MN244090.DTL Source: San Francisco Chronicle (CA)Author: Rob MorsePublished: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 Copyright: San Francisco Chronicle - Page A - 2  Contact: letters sfchronicle.comWebsite: http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/Related Articles: Voters To Decide On Pot http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13523.shtmlSan Francisco Puts Growing Marijuana on Ballot http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13517.shtmlSan Francisco Eyes Marijuana Farminghttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13512.shtml
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