Pubdate: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 Source: Chico Enterprise-Record (CA) Copyright: 2009 Chico Enterprise-Record Contact: http://www.chicoer.com/feedback Website: http://www.chicoer.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/861 Note: Letters from newspaper's circulation area receive publishing priority Author: Bruce Bosshardt PUT CONFISCATED MEDICINE ON THE MARKET I read in your paper that 5,500 marijuana plants worth $75 million were found and destroyed. Since marijuana is legal in California for medicinal purposes, why doesn't California auction the marijuana to the cannabis clubs and use the $75 million to help fix the budget? California government agencies already auction off confiscated property to help pay for law enforcement costs, so why not do the same with marijuana? After all California voters made marijuana legal in California? The best thing about this idea is, what ends up occurring is that the Illegal drug cartels end up paying off our debt and helping finance the very law enforcement efforts they are trying to skirt. Don't allow a logical solution to go up in smoke. By the way, I liked the one letter to the editor idea from the guy who suggested building solar panels and transmission lines along the canals because there is already a ready-made right of way. Do editors ever take good ideas and ask if any writers would like to volunteer to pursue promoting these ideas through a series of articles, to help promote solutions to very problems the newspaper reports on? Bruce Bosshardt, Willows - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake