LAW LOSES LEGITIMACY AMID POT PEDDLING

I am not surprised in the least by the comments made by detective
Doug Patterson on July 21 in your paper regarding the overwhelming
amount of work his marijuana eradication team is burdened with.

Well-meaning but ill-advised voters passed Proposition 215 years ago
to aid cancer and glaucoma patients with the pain they suffer.
Unfortunately, a law that had good intentions has been taken
advantage of by quack doctors, out to make a buck, who will issue
marijuana prescriptions for just about any complaint of pain or ailment.

The law and its intent has lost all legitimacy and law-abiding
citizens of our state are and will be paying for years or decades to
come for the abuses of a poorly written law. Californians will pay
for this abomination in many ways, such as the influx of illegals
ruining our public and private lands to grow their illegal crops and
then peddle their product to Americans.

Fellow Chicoans, the worst is yet to come. Four City Council members,
led by Andy Holcombe's championing of the many wonderful uses of
marijuana, has seen fit to establish two marijuana collectives
(distribution centers) somewhere in a commercial zone. I can't
imagine how giddy business owners next to these collectives will be.
The frivolous four (Holcombe, Walker, Flynn and Gruendl) have voted
themselves the authority to become grass peddlers in violation of
federal law. What remains to be seen is how much busier our
understaffed police department will become.

Chris Nicodemus, Chico