bell bell [bell] >> good evening commissioners, my name is david aldridge. i was one of the sponsors of the 1982 medical marijuana initiative. i wanted to butt in a historic note. the first time the citizens of san francisco voted for consult vation of marijuana was in november 1972 when 54% supported the california medical marijuana initiative. our vote has gone up every time we have had an opportunity to vote on it in san francisco. we have now come to the time that we are finally, after more than 30 years of being interested in having cultivation and marijuana in san francisco, we are finally working out the actual politics of doing that. i applaud you, commissioners. i applaud you and everyone who has been working on this for a long time. what we need is, first of all, something i said in 1972, what we want is free legal back yard marijuana, which is the right of every person to grow their own in their own small states without violating city codes. secondly, please do not go the oakland route. we need the diversity and the different qualities that indivi

bell bell [bell] >> good evening commissioners, my name is david aldridge. i was one of the sponsors of the 1982 medical marijuana initiative. i wanted to butt in a historic note. the first time the citizens of san francisco voted for consult vation of marijuana was in november 1972 when

bell bell [bell] >> good evening commissioners, my name is david aldridge. i was one of the sponsors of the 1982 medical marijuana initiative. i wanted to butt in a historic note. the first time the citizens of san francisco voted for consult vation of marijuana was in november 1972 when 54% supported the california medical marijuana initiative. our vote has gone up every time we have had an opportunity to vote on it in san francisco. we have now come to the time that we are finally, after more than 30 years of being interested in having cultivation and marijuana in san francisco, we are finally working out the actual politics of doing that.