TAKE AWAY PROFIT MOTIVE ON POT

In a previous letter to the E-R, I stated that selling marijuana is
always illegal, regardless of Proposition 215.

I was immediately assailed by the medical marijuana true believers.

"How could you write that? Don't you know the feds have promised not
to go after dispensaries?" Well, that illusion bit the dust recently.

The recent federal belligerence will most likely drive medical
marijuana back into the shadows. And maybe that's where it belongs.
It does not belong in fancy glass display cases, bearing exotic
labels, available for a fistful of cash.

When neighbors and friends begin to supply the desperately ill with
medicine, at no profit, the feds will tread very carefully.

- - Dale Rasmussen, Chico