We should support comments by Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson agreeing with recent court decisions that cities, towns and some areas of counties have the right to ban the sale and some processing of recreational marijuana.
We now are seeing some of the negative effects of recreational marijuana in our communities. Since the passage of I-502 there is evidence of brain damage to our young, damage to their immune systems, damage to their reaction and judgmental decisions that effect their daily life, more involvement by police in marijuana incidents, particularly in fatal and injury traffic accidents and explosions from manufacturing hash oil that have killed people and caused property damage.
Many school districts now experience an increase in student marijuana incidents that also include emergency admits for overdoses of edible marijuana products. The only issue that is concerning the marijuana advocates is they are losing money while they have assaulted the medical marijuana industry and created a marijuana black market which is completely out of control.
The recreational marijuana advocates are well organized and on their way to influence your state legislators and local politicians to change the laws that were created by I-502 to take their power away and not allow them to prohibit activity that under any person’s common sense are a disaster to our community’s health and safety. Please support politicians who will stand up and not change the laws to prohibit certain communities to become involved in the detrimental recreational marijuana industry.
Jim Tagart
Snohomish
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