EDITOR: I take issue with Paul Gillixson's column ("Do we want to become the mecca for marijuana," Sunday). Gillixson is a victim of his own paper. No one is advocating what he advanced in his column - except maybe the editors who create these illusionary headlines. (Oh wait, Gillixson is one of those editors.)

The city of Santa Rosa has, against all odds, accomplished precisely what the voters wanted and intended when they passed Proposition 215 nearly 20 years ago. We specifically asked our elected officials to "implement a plan to provide for the safe and affordable distribution of marijuana ..."

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