MEDICINAL POT USERS COMPLIANT

According to an Appeal-Democrat article, Sutter County Sheriff Paul
Parker endorsed the medical marijuana ID program as a way to separate
medicinal from criminal elements and thus reduce the workload for law
enforcement, clearly a benefit to the county.

Additionally, the county would receive net revenue of $64 per card
issued. I seriously doubt the administrative costs of running the
program would exceed that number. What I don't understand is the
benefit to a "card holder?" Medicinal users have already received a
prescription and paid a doctor for it. They are compliant with the
law. Why would a medicinal user want to pay a fee and go through the
red tape of getting a county-issued card?

Seems to me Sutter County just shot itself in the foot by deciding
not to participate in the pot card program. What is it I'm not getting here?

Rich Gabel

Yuba City