Pot growers are sellers

Ukiah Daily Journal Staff
Article Last Updated: 02/14/2008 08:59:32 AM PST

To the Editor:

Well it appears we're hearing again from the pro marijuana people. They're telling us that there is nothing wrong with pot; it's just some of the people who grow it. I keep hearing about these alleged "good pot growers" that stay within the number of plants and don't sell any. I've never met a single grower in my 21 years in this county that didn't sell what they grew. In my opinion, a "good person" who really needed THC, would take one look at the damage being done to our schools, our county and to our nation by those in the pot industry, and switch to the pill form of THC. Americans have the right to try to change the laws if they don't like them, but the also have the obligation to obey the laws till they are changed.

Frankly I seriously wonder about the priorities of all these people that say with their actions, "The heck with all the people that are hurt by uncontrolled pot growing, I want my medicine (my money)."

The pro pot people are also saying again that it should be legalized and taxed. It's illegal to sell pot at all. And most of the billions per year that come into this county from these illegal pot sales, come directly from the pockets of kids. I would venture to say, that today, I could go to any High School or Junior High School in this nation and buy as much pot as I wanted. All these growers are making sure that this remains profitably true.

Now we have some good hearted and well-intended people that want to make our county laws as strict as the state regulations for med pot. I know two things are true. 1.) Pot smoke is far more carcinogenic than medicinal, and 2.) The people who grow pot have never obeyed any poorly enforced laws or regulations at all since the beginning. The problem here isn't one of insufficient laws, the problem is in our policies behind law enforcement. Recently, former Mendocino County Sheriff Tony Craver came out of retirement just long enough to state in a letter to the editor, just how innocent from the problems that pot has created he and former District Attorney Norm Vroman are and that he believes that the pot situation in Mendocino County is out of control.
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The growers and the pro-pot people want the rest of us to believe that the "War On Drugs" is lost. The truth is that this isn't just a war on drugs; this is a war against crime. As long as there are people out there that cut corners, break laws and hurt others to get ahead, we need to maintain a campaign against them. We have been fighting the war against murder since the dawn of civilization. Have we done away with murder? No! Should we give up the campaign against murder? No! Should we give up our on going fight against rape, bank robbery or child molestation just cause they're still around? No! We need to stop listening to the propaganda put out by drug dealers and start prioritizing the rights of the good citizens that work hard for society and not just criminally for themselves.

Marc Parsley

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