Pubdate: Wed, 04 May 2011
Source: New Times (San Luis Obispo, CA)
Copyright: 2011 New Times
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1277
Author: Michael Fallon

IT'S CLEAR: SELLING MEDICAL MARIJUANA VIOLATES FEDERAL LAW

Charles Lynch just doesn't get it ("Down-but not out," April 28). He 
can continue to push this rock uphill until it rolls back down again 
and flattens him.

Again!

Boo-hoo.

Some people lack the capacity to learn.

As much as it may pain some regular readers of New Times and some New 
Times writers to admit it, the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency and 
one of New Times' favorite targets, Sheriff Pat Hedges, did what they 
are being employed to do: enforce the law and keep the community safe.

The politicians in Morro Bay need to stop wasting their 
taxpayer-funded time on trying to override federal law with their 
whining about what an "emotional issue" this is. It is not an 
emotional issue. It is a federal law issue, and that issue seems to 
be black and white: selling marijuana violates federal law.

Morro Bay staff people should be spending their time trying to figure 
out how to pay for filling the damn potholes in the streets, and not 
twiddling their collective thumbs hammering out multi-page studies 
and drafts inspired by their political bosses. If City Attorney Rob 
Schultz has so much extra time that he and his staff can present 
12-page proposed city ordinances that clearly violate federal law, 
then maybe his positive contribution to Morro Bay would be better 
served if he was provided with a shovel and some asphalt?

It seems very clear that the prior mayor and prior city council 
people were replaced by a new set of people for many good and valid 
reasons. Maybe the good people of Morro Bay want their political 
leaders to show some common sense and to do their jobs making the 
city of Morro Bay run more efficiently and for the betterment of the 
residents of Morro Bay? Not wasting their time and our tax revenues 
trying to trump federal law with local political banter.

I wonder how the city officials would feel if the feds came in to a 
council meeting and dragged them out in handcuffs to face their own 
federal charges?

Michael Fallon

Morro Bay
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