Re Marijuana legalization: Lots of talk these days about legalizing marijuana and all the tax money that will come rolling in, maybe.

But visualize this: Pot plants growing legal in backyards alongside the tomatoes and green beans. Teenagers going over fences in the middle of the night. The quiet of the night shattered by the sounds of barking guard dogs and shotguns. Ambulance and police sirens join in.

Neighbors who were once friends, friends no more. Lawsuits of all kinds clogging our courts. Try taxing all of that.

Charles L. Gunter, North Highlands

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