HISTORY OF FLUORIDATION IN CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO LAW REGARDING FLUORIDATION
Dr. David Kennedy speaks candidly.
"Resistance to forced fluoride in drinking water has a long history in San Diego. Back in 1952 the city council voted to begin adding fluoride to our public drinking water. At that time there was not one single scientific study valid by anyone's standards that has shown this practice to be either safe or effective. Today all of the broad based blinded studies of humans show delayed eruption of teeth (crooked teeth), increased dental fluorosis (41%), a dramatic increase in blood lead levels especially in minority children and no significant difference in tooth decay. Citizens united along with the Chiropractors and other health oriented consumers to fight this intrusion into our rights to safe water. They took the issue all the way to the California Supreme Court who ruled in the city's favor. In their conclusions the court told the petitioners they have three choices. They could either remove those from office who had voted for the new ordinance, enact a new ordinance themselves. So in 1954 they gathered the appropriate number of signatures and put the issue up for a vote and the new Ordinance 67 passed with something like 68% of the votes.
