Pubdate: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 Source: Sacramento Bee (CA) Copyright: 2015 The Sacramento Bee Contact: http://mapinc.org/url/0n4cG7L1 Website: http://www.sacbee.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/376 Author: Red Slider QUESTIONS DOG MARIJUANA BUSINESS Re "Pot industry ready for budding market" (Insight, Oct. 19): Unless California's law regulating cannabis pressures the federal government and the FDA into a complete rescheduling of pot and its decriminalization, it falls far short of sane or humane policy. Weed, or any other substance when used as medicine, should be treated like all medicines. It should be sold in any pharmacy by prescription, dispensed by health professionals, untaxed, and totally removed from the notion of dispensaries, which force our elders, terminally ill and people beset with pain to find their way to some remote location, where someone tells you that exorbitantly priced Supernova Blue buds are dynamite. That is what California and legalizing states are pushing as they create their regulations for a profit-taking industry in weed retailing. The sick don't need that and don't deserve it. It is a callous policy that would use ersatz dispensaries to minister to the sick. Red Slider, Sacramento - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom