Our Sheriff Donny Youngblood has repeatedly put federal law above state law regarding marijuana. While the federal government insists that its law is supreme over all state law, some California counties don't enforce pot laws like Sheriff Youngblood does. County resources (money) are in very short supply. Instead of spending locally collected tax money to enforce federal laws that the state's voters have rejected as bad law, why not collect taxes from the pot stores for the county general fund? If the Feds want their bad law enforced, let them use federal funds to enforce bad law. Sheriff Youngblood will never stop the pot business. The pot business will continue to enrich criminals so long as law enforcement treats it like a cash cow for their "war" on pot. Mike Kelly Bakersfield [end]
Sunday "blue laws" are archaic laws written many years ago but have never accomplished what they were originally intended to. That's why they have largely been done away with across this country. Prohibitionists, like those who opposed Sundayalcohol sales in Belleview, feel morality can be legislated or controlled by banning booze, that these laws will abate the urge for alcohol and create pillars of the community. Prohibition was repealed was because it didn't work. Juries failed to convict. Drinking was worse than before the 18th Amendment and people were drinking "rot gut" whiskey and getting sick and dying. We can see similarities with our drug laws. We have a "war" on drugs and drug use is worse. We don't need another war on alcohol. We have already been there, done that and lost. [continues 167 words]
