Articles by David Tyrone

Hillcrest came alive Wednesday afternoon around 5 pm as the Pride celebration began early when members of the LGBT community turned out in mass to celebrate the Supreme Court decisions that defeated the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and Proposition 8 (Prop 8).  As people at the rally stated it was “a rally to celebrate the death of DOMA and dance on the grave of Prop 8.”  Same sex couples stood proudly side by side, some with their adopted children, waving Pride flags and celebrating th...

Credit: voiceofsandiego.org On Monday May 20, 2013, San Diego Mayor Bob Filner attended a pretrial hearing at the federal district courthouse in downtown San Diego to show his support for defendant Ronnie Chang. Chang faces over 60 federal counts for operating a medical marijuana collective. Although Mr. Chang argues that he was in compliance with California state law, marijuana production and distribution for medical or any other purpose is still illegal under federal law. While Mr. Chang’s t...

Credit: PE.com Lanny Swerdlow, a registered nurse from Riverside County, California, has long been on the frontline against the prohibition of medical marijuana. Swerdlow spoke before an ASA (Americans for Safe Access) meeting in San Diego on Tuesday and argued that the problems marijuana patients have obtaining safe and legal access is purely political. Swerdlow believes local politicians are being pressured from the more organized campaigns of law enforcement and other pro-prohibition groups...

The Ron Paul 2012 Revolution supporters might have delivered some revenge for being shunned in Tampa, as a close look exit polls reveal the group could have carried Romney to victory. It’s unclear how many Paul supporters chose to cast votes for Romney in battleground states, but after the Republican National Convention, a number of staunch supporters within the Ron Paul Revolution Army vowed to never cast a vote for Romney. The election result totals show the loss of Ron Paul supporters may ha...

Credit: medicalmarijuana.procon.org The cities of Del Mar, Lemon Grove, Imperial Beach, and Solana Beach all voted down propositions that would have allowed medical marijuana dispensaries to set up shop within their city limits.  Del Mar’s Prop H, had the added incentive of altering the City’s sales tax laws to give Del Mar a direct economic benefit from dispensary sales.  Regardless of advertised incentives, voters in these cities decided that the burdens of regulating San Diego dispensaries o...

Photo: Yahoo! Several states tried to legalize marijuana this election, with Colorado and Washington actually passing the initiatives. Recreational use of the drug will now be legal in those states. Colorado, the more ambitious of the two, amended its constitution to legalize marijuana. Amendment 64 not only allows people over the age of 21 to possess and consume limited amounts of marijuana, but it also allows for licensed cultivation facilities, product manufacturing facilities, retail store...

Photo: Yahoo! Several states tried to legalize marijuana this election, with Colorado and Washington actually passing the initiatives. Recreational use of the drug will now be legal in those states. Colorado, the more ambitious of the two, amended its constitution to legalize marijuana. Amendment 64 not only allows people over the age of 21 to possess and consume limited amounts of marijuana, but it also allows for licensed cultivation facilities, product manufacturing facilities, retail store...

Continued from Part One.... Scott Peters can stand on his record as a city council member.  As a council member he played a part in the completion of Petco Park, in keeping Solar Turbines jobs in the San Diego area, and has been influential in clean-up efforts and improvement of San Diego’s beaches and water supply. The one incident that plagues Peters’ political career was his involvement in the San Diego pension scandal from 2002.  Peters voted to underfund the city’s pension while increasin...

Scott Peters looks to unseat Bilbray. Mike Jacobs, the manager for heavyweight boxing legend Joe Louis, is said to have begun every negotiation by asking, “What’s in it for Uncle Mike?”  It was Jacobs’ way of saying there was no deal unless there was something in it for him. As independent voters go to the polls this election cycle to choose between various political candidates, they need ask themselves the same question, “what’s in it for me?” The race for California's Congressional 52nd Distr...