Pubdate: Thu, 21 Apr 2016
Source: Sacramento Bee (CA)
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Author: Don Knutson

CRYING OVER LOST POT TOURISM

Re "Pot trail tours offer a whiff" (Travel, April 17): As I read the 
article written by The New York Times reporter who experienced the 
pot tours offered in Colorado, I couldn't help but think that the 
"Denver" I read could have been "Sacramento" or "San Francisco," if 
Californians had passed the 2010 ballot measure normalizing 
marijuana. But I recall a couple of weeks before that vote, President 
Barack Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder said that an affirmative 
vote would be "unhelpful" and the polls turned south and the measure 
was defeated.

Those Californians who voted "no" in 2010 should now bow their heads 
and weep quietly for the lost billions of dollars of commerce and the 
thousands of good-paying jobs you denied your state and vow to never 
do so again.

Don Knutson, Sacramento
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MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom