Pubdate: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 Source: San Diego Union Tribune (CA) Copyright: 2014 Union-Tribune Publishing Co. Contact: http://www.utsandiego.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/386 Note: Seldom prints LTEs from outside it's circulation area. Author: Richard Gardiol SIMILARITIES BETWEEN BREWERS, POT SHOPS Seeing the U-T story on microbreweries ("Someone hand South Bay a beer," Oct. 12), I thought how very similar they were to marijuana dispensaries and in some ways completely different. Marijuana dispensaries were put to a vote of the people, microbreweries rely on loopholes and officials to game the system. Marijuana is usually consumed at home, microbrewery beer is usually consumed in public. Marijuana dispensaries are exiled to industrial zones, microbreweries are being placed in residential neighborhoods. Do you want San Diego to be the "microbrewery capitol of the world"? Richard Gardiol North Park - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom