Even though this year's Amendment 2 is about legalizing medical marijuana, I believe that this is a back-door effort to legalize recreational use of marijuana, as Colorado and Washington have done.

When companies want to introduce new products or a new concept, they typically introduce that product in a "test market." By doing this, they are able to judge much better if this will be a success or not and whether it is worth even pursuing any further.

Before we rush to approve this amendment, we have "our" test market in the above two states. Wouldn't the prudent course of action be to monitor for a couple of years to see what the results are there in terms of crime, accidents, addiction, etc?

Bill Heller

Venice

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