Pubdate: Tue, 09 Jun 2015
Source: Alaska Dispatch News (AK)
Copyright: 2015 Alaska Dispatch Publishing
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Author: Jay Bergstrom

ALLOW PLACES FOR SOCIAL USE OF CANNABIS

I think that Anchorage Assembly Chair Dick Traini has a good idea but 
it needs some follow-through. Treat cannabis as tightly as tobacco, 
yet as loosely as alcohol. That means places for social use need to 
be tolerated. Responsible tavern keepers want to provide what their 
customers want, and to discourage what their neighbors don't want. 
The same as any other business, cannabis cafes will succeed or fail 
on how they perform. But they must be allowed to perform, as a 
necessary shove to push prohibition into the past and regulation into 
the present.

I miss the North. The grinning children beneath the northern lights 
in Barrow will never leave me. Please be careful with that Chukchi 
oil. A spill in Santa Barbara has wounded my heart.

- - Jay Bergstrom

Forest Ranch, Calif.
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MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom