I am President of the Coco Palms West Board of Directors and our Board has established an operating fund paid for by a monthly assessment on its homeowners. In this regard it’s incumbent on the Board knowing, in advance, what added costs may be in the offing.

I look forward to your early reply to this inquiry.

Sincerelly,

Gordon D. Perrine, Sr.
President, Board of Directors
Coco Palms West H.O.A.

1. The City wasted a couple hundred thousand dollars a few years ago fighting a legal battle against Felix Kha, a medical marijuana patient. The city lost. The city appealed. They lost again. (I forget how many times they appealed the ruling, but they lost multiple times and wasted nearly a quarter million dollars in the process.) It is not worth it to fight against State Law on this; it’s a huge waste of taxpayer dollars in the end.

2. Marijuana is not a dangerous drug. (Not when compared to FDA approved pharmaceuticals, which kill hundreds of thousands of people every few years in the U.S.)

Don’t take my word for it; look at the findings of fact from the DEA’s own administrative law judge Francis L. Young, who in 1988 ruled that marijuana does NOT belong in Schedule I and the government must change it’s status. In her ruling she noted that while you would have to smoke or eat approx. 1,500 POUNDS of marijuana within a 15 minute time span in order to suffer a harmful toxic overdose (making marijuana literally one of the safest substances on the planet consumed by humans, with zero reported overdose deaths in thousands of years of use), at the same time, you can easily eat enough raw potatoes to suffer a harmful toxic reaction. In fact, I have enough raw potatoes in my kitchen right now to kill myself, and yet the government doesn’t feel any need to protect me from these demon vegetables. Hmmm. Very curious. Skip to the last section, pages 53 to 69 of the ruling, for the Findings of Fact after the court heard all the evidence. Of course the DEA completely ignored this ruling by their own appointed judge. http://www.druglibrary.org/olsen/MEDICAL/YOUNG/young.html

I wonder how many people claiming that most medical marijuana patients are just people who want to get stoned, I wonder how many of these folks enjoy their own altered states of consciousness by drinking alcohol, a dangerous drug that kills thousands upon thousands of people every year? Even if it was true, that most of these patients just want to get high, someone please explain to me why is one altered state of consciousness (drunkenness) perfectly OK but the other one isn’t? I’m sorry, but the whole thing (the prohibition of cannabis) is ridiculous to begin with. It is Unconstitutional at its core, another example of the Nanny State (the Federal government) deciding it knows what is best for you, instead of letting you live your life free from their interference. And they’re wasting billions of our tax dollars while doing it.

And that is only the beginning, the permit also allows for the Chevrolet dealership to put one up (800ft away), and Nissan may follow. Soon, with already 2 billboards (VWS and Toyota), and 3 more in the planning, 22fwy between Euclid and Magnolia, we will see 5 giant TV billboards in a 1.5 mile stretch. Nowhere in OC, do we see such a high concentration. If this is approved, it set a precedence that would allow one TV billboard for each business… Garden Grove may become a TV billboard capital of the world.

We need a master plan, and the 6 dealerships need to timeshare 2 at most 3 TV billboards.