Pubdate: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 Source: Orange County Register, The (CA) Copyright: 2016 The Orange County Register Contact: http://www.ocregister.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/321 Author: William B. Bingham MEDICINAL MARIJUANA A SMOKESCREEN Your Editorial Board can't seem to get it. Yes, voters approved medical marijuana measure Proposition 215 because they believed that only medicinal uses would be legalized. Since then, many municipalities have discovered that this is just a smokescreen to legalize marijuana for all purposes. It's obvious that your editors haven't lived in a neighborhood where dispensaries result in stoned teenagers roaming the neighborhood late at night. If you truly believed that marijuana had medicinal value, you would make efforts to legalize it through prescription pharmaceutical channels. You have criticized city councils in Huntington Beach and Fountain Valley for not bowing to your marijuana god. I am grateful they held their ground, and I hope Garden Grove does the same. Frankly, I see a lot of hypocrisy in the movement to legalize marijuana. Please, just admit that you really want to legalize it for all purposes. If you live in a commune where impressionable kids don't live, then what you do is your business and that should not be regulated. Laguna Woods comes to mind. But if you live in a community where a parent's greatest fear is a child's addiction to mind-altering drugs, you would see it differently. William B. Bingham Fountain Valley - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom