Pubdate: Sun, 06 Nov 2011
Source: San Diego Union Tribune (CA)
Copyright: 2011 Union-Tribune Publishing Co.
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Author: Evelyn Hogan

RELAXING RULES ON POT UNWISE

In response to "Filner and colleagues seek shift on medical 
marijuana" (Nov. 3): As the mother of a teenager, I applaud the 
recent action by the U.S. attorneys and the Obama administration to 
bring the full measure of enforcement against the illegal 
mass-distribution centers throughout California that profit from the 
outright sale of marijuana. Their enforcement has not been aimed at 
seriously ill individual users of marijuana, but has rightly targeted 
domestic drug cartels operating major marijuana retail centers. In 
the short term, these dispensaries are a threat to public health and 
safety by acting as a magnet for crime due to easy access to large 
amounts of drugs, cash and guns (as so often reported in the U-T). In 
the long-term they send the wrong message to our teens that marijuana 
is neither harmful nor illegal.

Evelyn Hogan, La Mesa
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