Pubdate: Fri, 09 Aug 2013
Source: Sacramento Bee (CA)
Copyright: 2013 The Sacramento Bee
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Author: Kim Raney
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v13/n379/a05.html

MARIJUANA

Re "Environment is going to pot" (Dan Morain, Aug. 4): Senate 
President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg's SB 439 would do nothing to 
address the public safety and environmental corrosion caused by the 
medical marijuana trade.

Instead, SB 439 would make the current problems worse. SB 439 would 
permit marijuana dispensaries to become virtual cash machines as they 
exploit the massive medical recommendation fraud that underlies 
California's medical marijuana industry. The bill would do nothing to 
address that fraud, and now we find that it passive about the 
environmental degradation caused by medical marijuana farmers.

The California Police Chiefs Association has always known that 
marijuana dispensaries are magnets for crime, with the most recent 
example being a double murder that occurred at a dispensary two weeks 
ago in Bakersfield. This bill is a very real threat to public safety 
and should be rejected.

- -- Kim Raney, California Police Chiefs Association president, Sacramento
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