[Dopey Taylor]

I feel like I'm not a very good activist when the DEA can come in and close
LPC, one of the closer MCDs to my home.

The reason they had 500 patients a day on weekdays and as many as 750 a day on weekends is because they were the best. LPC had a self imposed limit on how much patients could obtain per visit, and they limited visits to 1 per
day. Many times I've seen 3 pounds slip out the door as I was waiting in the
long lines there. We live in the land of bev-mo where stores are free to
have 2 million cases of whiskey on hand for sale and to think 3 pounds is
adequate for the volume of patients that came in as far away as Tracy and
Gilroy isn't the least bit realistic. This is an arbitrary limit imposed
from a city council that didn't take into account the actual area the MCD
was serving. There's no MCDs in Pleasanton, Fremont, Newark, Union City,
Milpitas, Sunnyvale, Mt. View, Palo Alto, Belmont, San Mateo, etc, etc. You
really think 3 pounds covers that area huh?

The reason the city wanted them closed is they were across the street from
the city planners darling project, a16 theater multi-plex they approved to
bring more people into the down town area of Hayward. Since the closure of
LPC I've notice the now unfinished multi-plex has been repeatedly tagged
with graffiti and looks far from pristine. This wouldn't have happened if
LPC was still in business. They had a guard sitting in a chair across the
street from LPC but 10 feet from where the graffiti resides now. They had
guards on the roof and 2 guards in back where you parked. I felt safe there
and that's what the movement is about, safe access. Now that's been taken
away I'm surprised that membership on this list feels no pain for LPC.

750 people a day can't be wrong. They were popular because they were good at what they did. They had houses, they had the yellow hummer, they had a throne in their house, they were wealthy from inheritance long before they opened LPC.

As far as big players taking the heat from the DEA... What? 2 days ago,
Seven Seas was raided and they are one of the smallest in the state. Lpc was
big though, but how does that justify the raid.