DISCUSSION A WASTE OF TIME

Editor, the Gazette:

The September 2009 news letter from the City of Grand Forks states
that the "Task Force on legal, local safe access to medical marijuana
will be brought forward after November 2009."

I, as well as a number of other Grand Forks residents, would like to
know what in the world do the councillors of the City of Grand Forks
believe they are going to accomplish?

The problem with medical marijuana is that it belongs in the world of
medicine. It also belongs with the federal, much more than provincial
legislators and it definitely does not belong in the city council
chambers for discussion.

I cannot see any way that the discussion arising at this time in
trying to legalize marijuana is truly a City of Grand Forks problem.
That is why we have elected the representatives for the federal and
provincial parliaments.

There has been adequate discussion regarding the fact that this item
does not belong on the city council agenda. Therefore, I would
suggest that any further discussion is a waste of taxpayers' dollars.
If any further discussion continues, each councillor to return the
taxpayers' money to the city for the waste of time in trying to
promote medical marijuana during city council meetings.

Dr. Steve Maskall

Grand Forks