Pubdate: Wed, 21 Oct 2015
Source: Sacramento Bee (CA)
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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
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