In this Sunday’s Sacramento Bee,  Marcos Breton blasts the attempt to legalize Marijuana. Breton said, “… the point –for most users- is just getting high.” Really? I am 35 and an epileptic; I have had chronic Insomnia all my life and Marijuana has been the only thing that helped. In 2005 I smoked Marijuana for the first time and all that happened was that I was relaxed and slept? Over the last two years I have constantly complained of sever insomnia only to have doctors ignore my complaints. Mr. Breton characterizes the people using Marijuana as just stoners looking for cover. Having been on Pharmaceutical drugs for almost all my life I can tell you first hand how they zone you out

Standing outside of a Sacramento medical cannabis dispensary, you might detect something in the air. No, it's not secondhand THC vapor — public medicating is prohibited in the county. What you sense is a shift in perspective. Public pressure is building for the legalization and regulation of one of the oldest cash crops in America: the plants of genus Cannabis. The US federal government has held since 1970 that cannabis is a danger to public health and safety and listed the annual flowering herb under US code as having "high potential for abuse" and "no accepted medical potential." "A lot of people are thinking that federal drug laws are arbitrary and now we're starting to see the transl

Medical cannabis in California wouldn't be what it is today if it wasn't for Ryan Landers. The Sacramento activist helped to develop the laws, policies and realities of medical marijuana in a career of activism that spans more than a decade. He was there to help roll Proposition 215 into motion in 1996 and had a significant hand in crafting SB 420 in 2003. "I live the cause," he said. "When I'm not out testifying or counseling or negotiating for the cause, I'm just home and sick." He's a 15-year survivor of HIV/AIDS, a personal fact that he doesn't usually publicize partly due to prior experience. Landers, now 37, became a member of Californians for Compassionate Use in 1995. CCU is the