Date: 24 Feb 94 09:23:10 PST
From: [s d hc] at [pro-sancho.cts.com] (San Diego Hemp Council)
Subject: ===CITY COUNCIL VOTES *FOR* MEDICAL MARIJUANA===

The following article is from the 2/24/94 San Diego Union-Tribune:


End Asked For Bans On Medical Pot Use

The San Diego City Council has unanimously passed a resolution calling on the
White House and Congress to end federal prohibitions against the medicinal
use of marijuana.

Sponsored by 3rd District Councilwoman Christine Kehoe, the resolution urges
federal lawmakers to create a "rational system" of allowing prescription
access to marijuana.

Kehoe proposed the resolution last month after learning of the case of Sam
Skipper, a La Mesa man sentenced to 16 months in prison for growing marijuana
to alleviate his AIDS symptoms.

Copies of the council's resolution will be sent to the White House, the
secretary of Health and Human Services, the Attorney General and San Diego's
congressional delegation.



Here is the resolution itself:


RESOLUTION NUMBER R-94-1975
ADOPTED ON 02-22-94


WHEREAS, significant scientific and medical studies by the National Academy
of Science have shown marijuana is safe for use under medical supervision and
that the cannabis plant, in its natural form, has important therapeutic
actions that are often of critical medical importance to persons afflicted
with a variety of life and sense threatening illnesses; and

WHEREAS, courts have recognized the medical value in marijuana in treatment
and have ruled that marijuana can be a drug of "necessity" in the treatment
of glaucoma, cancer, AIDS, and multiple sclerosis; and

WHEREAS, most physicians surveyed said that they would prescribe
cannabis/marijuana if legally available; and

WHEREAS, the people of The City of San Diego believe that well trained
medical professionals rather than remote federal bureaucrats should be
responsible for determining a patient's routine of medical care; and

WHEREAS, seriously ill San Diegans and other Americans are unnecessarily
suffering because of federal policies which legally prohibit marijuana's
legitimate medical use; and

WHEREAS, these problems are not particular to The City of San Diego but
generally affect the citizens of all cities adversely; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT RESOLVED, by the Council of The City of San Diego, that this Council
memorializes the President and the United States Congress to end federal
prohibitions against marijuana's legitimate medical use by creating a
rational system of prescriptive medical access to marijuana.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution be transmitted to the
President of the United States, the Vice President, the Secretary of the
United States Department of Health and Human Services, the United States
Attorney General, and the members of the San Diego Congressional Delegation.


APPROVED: JOHN W. WITT, City Attorney

By Stuart H. Swett
   Senior Chief Deputy



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