PUT DOWN THE CAMERA

Who are these people that try to run our lives, these bureaucrats who
dream up all these off-the-wall rules and regulations? The medical
marijuana rules and regulation "committee," these stalwarts of what is
right and wrong and social consciousness engineers, are trying to
drive an upfront and honorable profession into the back alleys of our
recent history.

Cameras linked to the "home office" that watch the plants grow, dry
and be sold? Who is supposed to pay for these hundreds (if not
thousands) of video surveillance systems? Will we, as a state, have to
gin up another agency to monitor said systems? Keeping track of the
ever-changing weight of plants from seed to smoke?

The state's medical marijuana community, now well over 100,000, needs
to unite as a body to protest these "goody-two-shoes" in Denver. For
as quickly as the industry came out of the shadows, it can return to
the dark underbelly of the streets - and with it go the commercial
property rents plus the payroll and sales tax revenue.

Maybe we should put cameras in all the pharmacies and the liquor
stores? Do you think anyone would mind?

Karl Knapstein

Sedalia