TIME TO CHANGE MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAWS

I was aghast to read Sunday's People on the Street comments regarding
medical marijuana in California. I live in the mountains where
everyone owns acreage. A neighbor of mine owns six acres and grows
70-plus medical marijuana plants, which he says is legal because he
has 12 doctor's certificates to do so. He has a neighbor family with
children working the crops and the night traffic is really bad during
harvest season.

After a deputy sheriff stopped by his place, the grower came by to let
me know that one out of three in California smoke marijuana and if I
don't like it, I should sell my house and move to another state. Also,
two years ago, three people were murdered in a selling transaction of
medical marijuana that was grown in my community.

If medical marijuana is a safe practice then why does it involve
deceit, use children in drug production, make neighborhoods unsafe to
live in, create violence and handgun use and even murder?

One good note: Last week three sheriff's trucks came in and hauled off
their marijuana and finally arrested some of the involved parties, but
it will continue if California doesn't make growing marijuana against
the law again.

Jo Ann Donoho

Yankee Hill