California Medical Marijuana Numbers: Amount Of Patients With Pot Prescriptions Is Difficult To Gaug [View all]

Here we go again and again.. Round in circles over and over..
This battle has already been here in the Courts of California all the way to local Governments requiring State I.D.s..

It is very clear why:

The changes are designed to make it easier for police and sheriff's deputies to identify who can legally consume and grow marijuana and who is using medical marijuana laws as a cover for illegal drug possession or dealing, said Randy Perry, the Peace Officers Research Association of California lobbyist who wrote the bill.

Health department officials declined to discuss the registry's unpopularity, but the reasons for it are hardly a mystery. Although the system was set up with extensive privacy protections, such as identifying patients by numbers instead of names, many people are reluctant to enter personal information on a government database since marijuana still is illegal under federal law.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/24/california-medical-marijuana-numbers_n_1377171.html