Pubdate: Sat, 21 Jul 2012
Source: Sacramento Bee (CA)
Copyright: 2012 The Sacramento Bee
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/376
Author: Tom Ammiano
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v12/n353/a01.html

MARIJUANA REGULATION WOULD PROTECT PEOPLE AND WILDLIFE

Re "Wildlands caught in drug war crossfire" (Editorials, July 18):
Your editorial rightly noted that there can be human costs to the
pesticides used in illegal pot grows, in addition to the disasters
befalling wildlife like the Pacific fishers. When vulnerable patients
use medical cannabis as part of their treatments, they can be exposed
to and endangered by the same harsh pesticides used by growers against
animals.

It is yet another reason for California to enact effective regulations
to make control the production and distribution of the medical
cannabis approved by voters more than a decade ago. Wildlife and
medical patients both deserve to be protected from criminal growing
operations, and I will continue to promote legislation that will help
make them safe.

- -- Assembly member Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco
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MAP posted-by: Matt