PUT CONFISCATED MEDICINE ON THE MARKET

I read in your paper that 5,500 marijuana plants worth $75 million
were found and destroyed. Since marijuana is legal in California for
medicinal purposes, why doesn't California auction the marijuana to
the cannabis clubs and use the $75 million to help fix the budget?
California government agencies already auction off confiscated
property to help pay for law enforcement costs, so why not do the same
with marijuana? After all California voters made marijuana legal in
California?

The best thing about this idea is, what ends up occurring is that the
Illegal drug cartels end up paying off our debt and helping finance
the very law enforcement efforts they are trying to skirt. Don't allow
a logical solution to go up in smoke.

By the way, I liked the one letter to the editor idea from the guy who
suggested building solar panels and transmission lines along the
canals because there is already a ready-made right of way. Do editors
ever take good ideas and ask if any writers would like to volunteer to
pursue promoting these ideas through a series of articles, to help
promote solutions to very problems the newspaper reports on?

Bruce Bosshardt, Willows