Pubdate: Wed, 02 Nov 2011
Source: Chico Enterprise-Record (CA)
Copyright: 2011 Chico Enterprise-Record
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Author: Dale Rasmussen

TAKE AWAY PROFIT MOTIVE ON POT

In a previous letter to the E-R, I stated that selling marijuana is 
always illegal, regardless of Proposition 215.

I was immediately assailed by the medical marijuana true believers.

"How could you write that? Don't you know the feds have promised not 
to go after dispensaries?" Well, that illusion bit the dust recently.

The recent federal belligerence will most likely drive medical 
marijuana back into the shadows. And maybe that's where it belongs. 
It does not belong in fancy glass display cases, bearing exotic 
labels, available for a fistful of cash.

When neighbors and friends begin to supply the desperately ill with 
medicine, at no profit, the feds will tread very carefully.

- - Dale Rasmussen, Chico
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