HEY, MIKE, IT'S LEGAL

Re "The cannabis conundrum" (Cover story, by Melissa Daugherty and
Meredith J. Cooper, Sept. 2):

Contrary to what the Butte County Sheriff's Office would have us
believe, people were growing and selling illegal marijuana decades
prior to Proposition 215. Before we had any idea that marijuana had
any medicinal uses people were making money unlawfully on pot.

Using and growing cannabis is legal under certain circumstances,
whether DA Mike Ramsey and his buddies like it or not. The fact that
criminals break the law is no reason to destroy the lives of honest,
hard-working, law-abiding citizens like Rick Tognoli.

Karen Kinney

Oroville