Pubdate: Fri, 12 Dec 2014
Source: San Diego Union Tribune (CA)
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Author: Scott Chipman

EFFORTS TO CLOSE POT SHOPS APPRECIATED

As you alluded to ("Is Vista tougher on med pot than San Diego?" Nov. 
24), it appears the flaw in the city attorney's numbers of closed pot 
shops is that he is using many of the closings that came in great 
part with the help of U.S. attorney letters to landlords.

However, we want San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith and his team 
to know that we don't think of them as the enemy. They are doing 
their best in a difficult situation. We are all struggling to deal 
with the real enemies, who are the drug dealers.

Drug dealers have played the City Council and county supervisors for 
fools, allowing them to think they can, and have to, regulate this 
criminal activity. They don't and they shouldn't.

And it certainly is a serious handicap that the Obama administration 
has become an accessory to the crime of drug dealing by recently 
tying the hands of the DOJ and U.S. attorney, who are frustrated and 
embarrassed by the imposed impotence on their ability to stop 
storefront drug dealing.

Scott Chipman

Pacific Beach
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