WHY NO FEES ON PHARMACIES?

Re "City sets new pot shop fees" (Our Region, Nov. 10): If the
Sacramento City Council can impose fees of $40,000-plus initially and
$12,600 annually on facilities dispensing medicine as harmless as
cannabis, it stands to reason that equal protection under the law
would dictate that every pharmacy dispensing opiates i.e Vicodin,
morphine, etc. which are far more dangerous than cannabis, should
also be required to pay fees of comparable if not greater value based
on the greater danger to society the abuse of opiates presents.

No one has ever died from consuming cannabis; the same cannot be said
for opiates.

Richard Ruiz, Rocklin