San Diego, California is a bizarre city. The residents are some of the most laid-back, pot-friendly folks in Southern California. The government, on the other hand, is nuts. Reyes was fighting them here in January.

We touched on this in “San Diego District Attorney thinks SD is for sicherheitsdienst.” (The security service of the Nazi SS was called the SD, or sicherheitsdienst. Yeah, we looked it up. Who the hell knew that?)

Now Reyes is back in the news.

San Diego City Beat had this:

Rudy Reyes is, as he puts it, both a “hero and a villain.” Hero because during the 2003 Cedar fire, the then-26-year-old made sure his family got out of their Wildcat Canyon home before he tried to leave. Unable to start his car, Reyes sprinted through a wall of flames and came out burned over more than 65 percent of his body. He lost most of his left ear and part of a finger. His remaining digits are permanently disfigured. He was considered legally blind until corrective eye surgery two years ago fixed that. Despite it all, Reyes is charismatic—a thoroughly likeable guy driven to make the most of his life.

Problem is, he needs marijuana to do that…

Read the article.

And Reyes is mounting a multi-pronged attack on his oppressors: In the streets, the courthouse, and on video. A documentary was also recently made in response to the DEA’s abuses of medical patients in San Diego.

Reyes is one of many heroes in a docu-teaser we brought you earlier titled ‘RxCannabis.’