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...other clubs seem closer to head shops than hospitals. Dennis Peron, a pro-pot proselytizer who helped draft Prop 215 and runs the San Francisco Cannabis Cultivators Club, admits he sells pot for everything from premenstrual syndrome to the blues. "All use of marijuana is medical," says Peron. "It makes you smarter. It touches the right brain and allows you to slow down, to smell the flowers. We're living in a very stressful world. It can and should be used for anxiety and depression...
...enforcement agencies are in a quandary over what to do about clubs like Peron's. A few cities, such as Concord and Palo Alto, have instituted moratoriums on pot clubs. California attorney general Dan Lungren, a law-and-order Republican, is pursuing civil and criminal litigation against Peron's club; he says undercover cops have bought marijuana there without a doctor's recommendation and that videotapes have shown minors on the premises...
...quantities larger than what was needed by its ill customers. But the raid was denounced by San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and other city officials, and U.S. Attorney Mike Yamaguchi declined to file criminal charges. "It's maddening," seethes a federal agent, who works just four blocks away from Peron's Cannabis Cultivators Club. "You can see hundreds of people an hour coming out of that place. We think some of these clubs are distributing marijuana to basically anybody who walks through the door...
...Evita about Eva Peron, or is it about Madonna's efforts to get our attention again [CINEMA, Dec. 16]? Isn't Madonna's intensive campaign for the role--agreeing on only a $1 million fee for a major production that cost $60 million, lobbying and negotiating with every key person--enough evidence to prove the latter? Madonna identifies herself with Eva Peron, but in what ways? Only in being able to manipulate others to satisfy her hunger for power. Why doesn't Madonna run a charity and help the poor, as Eva did? One wonders why Evita was made...
...film, Madonna revives the legend of Eva Peron beautifully and demonstrates her own many talents of singing, acting and dancing. Madonna really does have star quality. DEREK HSIA Vancouver, British Columbia...