Pubdate: Sun, 29 Jun 2014
Source: Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA)
Copyright: 2014 The Press-Enterprise Company
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Author: Letitia Pepper

'YES' ON RIVERSIDE MEDICAL MARIJUANA

Sacramento, and cities like Palm Springs and Los Angeles have tax
bases that include well-managed medical marijuana dispensaries, but
the city of Riverside does not.

Why haven't the city of Riverside and its police chief ever tried to
work together to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries?

They regulate adult businesses, pawn shops, pharmacies (the
repositories of lots of valuable, illegal-without-a-prescription
drugs) gun stores, smoke shops filled with deadly and valuable tobacco
and more - but claim they are unable to regulate medical marijuana
dispensaries.

That claim is a lie. It's not that they can't regulate medical
marijuana, but that they don't want to.

I don't like cigarettes, but people have a right to use
them.

Our local politicians don't like marijuana, but I have a right to use
it to treat my multiple sclerosis.

So please vote yes on the upcoming citizens' initiative to allow safe,
local access to regulated medical marijuana dispensaries.

Letitia Pepper

Riverside
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