Your editorial on Monday, "Rand supplies a dose of clear analysis on pot," isn't at all clear to me.

Every pot season we read about the number of marijuana plants seized by law enforcement. I recall the number to be in the hundreds of thousands of plants in Shasta County alone. The costs that accompany the time, effort and energy investigating and seizing these plants, and the arrests, trials, court-appointed lawyers, judges, courtroom time, juries, sentencing, incarceration, probation oversight, etc., have to have a considerable price tag. Without that cost basis in the equation, a meaningful number cannot be determined.

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