READER VIEW: DRUG PARAPHERNALIA

In response to the reader whose opinion was published regarding drug
paraphernalia and how the police illegally violated the rights of people
marketing drug paraphernalia: If you don't like it, why don't you move to
southern California, where all head shops are free to proliferate their
goods to the locals and the crime rates are through the roof!

Children are left running around in dirty diapers on the streets while Mom
entertains a guest with some "herbs" that they share in a hooka purchased
from a head shop, that is very obviously not advertising the aromas of sage
and thyme, with the money they made selling my stolen car stereo to another
dealer who plans to purchase the new purple, three-foot-tall hooka with
magic mushrooms painted all over it at the self same "smoke shop!"

That little bit about Second Amendment rights was rather twisted. There is
a distinct difference in the right to bear arms to ensure a free society
and the right to peddle drug paraphernalia to hold captive a society for
your own monetary gain (or political agenda, whatever it may be).

Good for the police department! Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Violet Stephens,

Moreno Valley, Calif.