KusThis past weekend Anaheim Convention Center hosted the Kush Expo under the cloak of medical marijuana. It featured a hot kush girl contest, a smoking room to use marijuana and had hundreds of vendors selling and marketing products “all marijuana”. Legally they can do this because of Proposition 215 which allows patients to use medical marijuana legally in the state of California. However I can assure you that this convention had very little to do with medical marijuana, but was more a gathering for recreational users to smoke pot (I am sure there were some curious legitimate patients that checked it out so don’t blow up on me) I must admit that I actually did not stop by to see exactly who was there but I only needed to attend one kush expo (LA in 2009) to figure out was it was all about. I guess my question is this.
If this the face that we want to put on the medical marijuana industry? Hot kush girls, smoking patios, and photos of fast food wrappers after a session of the munchies (see their facebook page). This is exactly why the community does not take medical marijuana seriously. I am assuming that there were doctors who set up booths and issued recommendations which allowed those patients went outside to get high on the smoke patio. This is what they have done in the past. It is because of this image that dispensaries are struggling to survive as cities, one by one, ban or shut them down. A perfect example is the city of Costa Mesa. In early April I presented, along with 5 other professionals, information on why medical marijuana is a necessity in our community and why regulating it would be their best approach to a legitimate industry. Their main concern was the fact that 75% of the graduating high school class has medical marijuana cards and parents are finding their children partying and getting high and NOT using it as medicine. How can you argue with them?
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