The actions of the San Diego district attorney, chief of police, county board and even local judges regarding medical marijuana remind me of how Bull Connor kept Jim Crow segregation in force in Alabama for a while after the courts ruled otherwise. The main difference being that 52 percent of the voters in San Diego County voted for Proposition 215 in 1996 and an even bigger majority approves now. The level of opposition to democratic principles found among San Diego’s leaders is appalling. San Diego’s officials seek to disown Proposition 215 in the face of a majority vote in favor of legal medical marijuana, not to mention numerous court decisions that went against them. Apparently these cretins still believe the racist nonsense used to pass marijuana prohibition laws in the first place: “Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men’s shadows and look at a white woman twice.” —— (Hearst newspapers nationwide, 1934) “There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the U.S., and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana can cause white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.” “… the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.” — Federal Bureau of Narcotics Director Harry J. Anslinger, 1930 “Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.” — Federal Bureau of Narcotics Director Harry J. Anslinger, 1929 “Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality and death.” “Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.” “[Smoking] one [marihuana] cigarette might develop a homicidal mania, probably to kill his brother (see U.S. Government Propaganda To Outlaw Marijuana — www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/taxact/t3.htm). No one who upholds this kind of lunacy deserves to hold public office. Yet we see judges, district attorneys and elected officials glibly defying all common sense and all medical wisdom. When politicians ignore the will of the people, it is time to clean house and vote these corrupted poltroons out of office.