Thank you, Mr. Short, for a well-written letter to the editor ("Business a sham," April 11 Steamboat Pilot & Today) finally verbalizing what we have all been concerned about for years: First, a medical marijuana dispensary, next, an abortion clinic. And what's next? A "topless dancing program"? A "pornographic store"?

Before we all know it, the fair town of Oak Creek will be inundated with knife-wielding abortion butchers, pot dens and strippers.

Pardon the sarcasm, but to take the space-age leap from medical marijuana to abortions is, well, how can I say this in a polite and politically correct way? I consider your letter to the editor to be a fictional, backwards assumption with just a sprinkling of medical marijuana fact.

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