Joe Marsico's new alliance

Greg Nordbak, Joe Vinatieri and Cathy Warner have a new ally in their fight to ban medical marijuana dispensaries. It's long-time gadfly Joe Marsico.
During Monday's public hearing on the ordinance to ban such businesses, Marsico told the commission it should approve the ordinance. "This medical marijuana is pathetic," he said.

Asked on Tuesday about what it's like to agree with three council members, he laughed loudly. "I don't know what to say," he said. "They're accidentally right."

During his speech Monday, Marsico drew in comparisons to Communist China and multi-million dollar corporations. He asserted that Mao Zedong got rid of all of the opium shops and dealers. "He put them on a ship and then sank the ship," Marsico said. "That's how the Chinese people got the message that (drugs) were no good."

Marsico also alleged that large companies were behind the movement for medical marijuana dispensaries. "Why can't people, who need it, get it on their own?" he asked. "If this was a free country, then you should bed able to make your own whiskey and beer and drink it. And you should be able to plant marijuana) and use it.