FREE MARKET SHOULD REGULATE MEDICAL MARIJUANA SHOPS

I am conservative but believe natural drugs should be legal. On the
paper's front page Aug. 17 (stop pot shops), Commissioner Dave Palmer
relates information that it's become easy for high school students to
buy marijuana in Butte.

Like many politicians around the country, he seems to be unaware of
the fact that anyone wanting pot can obtain it within a half hour and
that includes high school students. This has been the situation for at
least the last 15 years. Anyone who spends any time with all their
constituents would know how prevalent pot has become in the past
several decades.

Commissioner Mike Sheehy has it right. The bad seeds will fall by the
wayside and those conducting a legal business in accord with those
regulating them will thrive as they should in an economy built on free
enterprise.

William Hjorten

[address redacted]

Butte