DISPENSARIES FOR SAFER DISTRIBUTION

I have a heads-up for Councilman Paul Marchand regarding his no vote
on the medical marijuana dispensaries.

Black market marijuana is already in Cathedral City and everywhere
else, and that is exactly the problem.

The whole point of having medical marijuana dispensaries is to take
the black market out of the loop and provide a safe, clean and secure
environment in which patients can acquire their medicine free from
fear of criminal prosecution and the threat of other dangerous
illicit substances being dealt.

Marijuana in its smoked form provides fast and far more effective
relief than those drugs the government prefers to provide with
basically no negative side effects -- unless maybe a bale of it falls
on your head.

As well, the medicalization of marijuana has provided a fantastically
more accurate database of how many people are using it, what they are
using it for, which strains are more effective for what maladies and
its long-term effects -- which, by the way, are far less harmful than
all drugs.

The no vote by the Cathedral City City Council is a profound
statement of ignorance.

Scott Logan