Pubdate: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 Source: Summit Daily News (CO) Copyright: 2009 Summit Daily News Contact: http://apps.summitdaily.com/forms/letter/index.php Website: http://www.summitdaily.com/home.php Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/587 Author: Roebert Bollak Referred: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n970/a03.html?1079 WHAT'S THE RUSH WITH POT LAWS? Thank you, Carol James, for your medical marijuana letters and taking the time to write about what many of us are thinking and believe, but don't take the time to write. I do know oncologists with cancer centers have stated that there are other sophisticated medications that are much more effective in reducing nausea caused by chemo, cancer symptoms and glaucoma. What medicine do you put into your body by smoking it? Sadly young people are applying for medical marijuana for backaches, headaches, tummy pains, etc. (and the need to get high), not for the eight specific conditions it was approved for. Thank you, Summit County Sheriff Minor and deputies for busting the pot smokers in vehicles at A-Basin parking lot. Clearly this indicates how abusive some of the young people can and will be. I do not want to walk thru ski area parking lots and public places with my children being exposed to second-hand marijuana smoke. I wonder how these stoners can operate their vehicles after puffing dope. I urge local town councils and officials to take their time putting together the dispensary regulations in order to protect residents and visitors and encourage the local authorities to enforce our laws. Please extend the moratorium to be sure we have the proper security, rules and laws in place We should wait to see the ripple effects that dispensaries have on other communities. What's the rush? Not everyone is supportive of making marijuana easily available. Roebert Bollak Breckenridge - --- MAP posted-by: Richard R Smith Jr