The City Council doesn't hate Marijuana Smokers (who are sick, you know, medicinal use).

The City of San Diego filed a brief a few weeks ago in support of the statewide identification card program for qualified medical marijuana patients and their primary caregivers. This brief rebukes the County, who filed lawsuit in February of 2006 challenging the state requirement to implement the program. The County believes that there is a conflict between federal and state laws on the identification card issue. From IndyBay.org:

In December 2006, San Diego Superior Court Judge William Nevitt, Jr. ruled that there is no "positive conflict" between federal and state law, affirming the sovereignty of state law. In a stinging rebuke to San Diego County's challenge to state law, the City of San Diego filed a brief less than two weeks ago, which strongly asserted that, "The identification card program does not conflict with federal law, so there is no excuse for the County's failure to implement this state-law mandated program."