Pubdate: Thu, 09 Aug 2012
Source: Chico News & Review, The (CA)
Copyright: 2012 Chico Community Publishing, Inc.
Contact:  http://www.newsreview.com/chico/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/559
Author: Robert Sharpe
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v12/n374/a10.html

MEDI-POT PROS AND CONS

Is the Butte County Board of Supervisors on the payroll of Mexican
drug cartels? Like it or not, California's medical-marijuana law
allows consumers to purchase locally grown marijuana of known quality
and safety from dispensaries that generate tax revenue. At least that
is what voters intended when they passed Proposition 215.

In Butte County, however, medical-marijuana dispensaries have been
banned.

As long as there is a demand for marijuana, there will be a supply. Is
it somehow preferable that consumers purchase untaxed marijuana from
Mexican drug cartels that also sell cocaine, meth and heroin?
Marijuana prohibition is a gateway-drug policy.

Robert Sharpe, MPA

Common Sense for Drug Policy

Washington, DC
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