THE DEA SHOULD CLEAN UP ITS ACT

Re "DEA alerts pot-store landlords / Letters warn of penalties for
leasing to marijuana dispensaries," Dec. 15: When the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Administration shuts down all the cannabis dispensaries
in California, despite Proposition 215 being approved overwhelmingly
by the public in 1996, do the agents think everyone will stop using cannabis?

Many patients are helped in so many ways. And, you know what else,
people? It works! And, it is cheaper and safer than other medications. HA!

When they close down the dispensaries, they make us all illegal. Is
that what they want? Cannabis is the biggest cash crop in the United
States. It isn't going away; neither are the users.

The DEA must stay out of state law. Instead, it should search and
destroy meth labs, crack houses and drugs in schools. Or is that task
too dangerous for them, or they don't get as many offenders as they
do setting up landlords with form letters and scare tactics?

- - Linda Schoeffler, Citrus Heights