These past weeks the Camera has shown readers the hypocrisy of legalized medical marijuana.

We now have 32 pot shops; 12 more applications are pending and will probably be licensed making 44 dispensaries. (There aren't 44 of any other kind of shops in town.) A number of Fort Collins pot pushers will probably relocate here since their City Council has wisely disallowed them.

If indeed narcotics such a marijuana have medical benefits, why not have it grown by legitimate pharmaceutical companies and dispensed by licensed pharmacies upon presentation of a valid prescription from a physician?

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