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The State Legislature is looking into medical marijuana. Not an unreasonable thing for our public servants to be up to. However, when the good citizens of Colorado voted to legalize marijuana for legitimate medical use, apparently some legislators figured no one would actually use it.

The public servants say, “the will of the people” is not being followed. Yet, the very numbers of permits the state’s issuing indicates the will of a great many citizens is that they want to use marijuana for their medical needs.

The legislators championing revisions to the law act as if this is a zero sum game. That is, if people can’t have access to legal medical marijuana, then no one will use any marijuana. Apparently they dont have kids in high school. Illegal marijuana is on every street corner and in every school.

They use the “gateway drug” argument. While it may be true in some cases, it isnt germane here, because folks who want illegal drugs have no problem finding them….everywhere….now. The “war on drugs” has been a boon to illegal drug gangs and prison administrators. Immigrant gangs import cheap marijuana and have a firm footing in our state and a huge source of income.

Is it so remarkable that honest, tax-paying folk would prefer to not deal with thugs and felons for relief of their pain? Could that be “the will of the people?”

Our legislature has often been willing to protect various immigrant groups. Do they really believe that immigrant drug gangs are under economic assault from middle class yuppies and that gang control of the marijuana trade must be protected from the vagaries of the marketplace? Because if you severely limit the legal medical marijuana trade, illegal drug gangs are surely the beneficiaries.

Legalized medical marijuana has become an overnight cottage industry with all sorts of folks trying to help their friends and families. Legal dispensaries and caregivers pay taxes, provide jobs, and don’t deal drugs to our children. There is no reason. The whole point is to behave legally and show that there are alternatives to the insanity that has gone on for so long.

Are there some bad people involved with medical marijuana? Sure….some. Those who deal drugs to unlicensed folks should be stopped and there are laws on the books already to deal with them. That’s different than changing the intent of the law and eliminating the ability of honest citizens who want to legally use the medicine of their choice. The “Will of the people” is clear. A rapidly growing number of the people want to continue making their own decisions about how they manager their bodies.

-Your Neighbor

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