Pubdate: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 Source: San Diego Union Tribune (CA) Copyright: 2011 Union-Tribune Publishing Co. Contact: http://www.signonsandiego.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/386 Note: Seldom prints LTEs from outside it's circulation area. 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 - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom