Pubdate: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 Source: Albany Democrat-Herald (OR) Copyright: 2015 Lee Enterprises Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/HPOp5PfB Website: http://www.democratherald.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/7 Author: Dick Olsen POT ORDINANCE FOOLISH You may have seen in the Thursday, Sept. 23 edition of the Democrat-Herald that the Albany City Council placed a moratorium on the sale of recreational marijuana from medicinal marijuana dispensaries until January 2017. I want to assure my constituents in Ward I that I did not vote for this and in fact agreed with the room full of our citizens that its passage was a foolish thing to do. To me it is a sad irony that recreational marijuana use is now legal, but we must seek out the criminal element in order to purchase it. As always, prohibition is a blessing for the criminal element. Dick Olsen City councilor, Ward I Albany (Sept. 24) - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom