GOOD FIGHT

In reference to a Jan. 2 story regarding marijuana users suing the
county: Good for San Bernardino County and Sheriff Gary Penrod for
fighting back against medical fraud marijuana. People are fed up with
the lies brought to us by pro-drug groups peddling pot in our
communities. City after city in the region has pushed out pot-shops
and now marijuana users are afraid that the tide has turned against
them. They are right!

It's great to know that the county has moved the issue to the U.S.
Supreme Court. Back in 1996, voters passed Proposition 215 because
voters believed so-called medical marijuana would be used for
terminally ill patients. Research has shown that in San Diego, for
example, just 2 percent of those with medical marijuana ID cards can
be categorized as having a serious illness. The remaining 98 percent
do not.

What Proposition 215 has really brought us is the legalization of a
drug that anybody, including children, can obtain for any issue at
all, including hair loss, ankle pain or whatever reason they tell the
state so they can legally get high. Thank God our county is fighting
this now and preventing the destructive decline of morals and family
values.

This past November, Proposition 5 failed on the ballot. It was funded
by pro-drug legalization billionaire from New York who also funded
Proposition 215. Times are changing in California. Voters were not
fooled again this past November and the county is now fighting to
correct the clear and obvious failings brought to California by
well-funded, drug legalization groups.

More surprisingly, the co-founder of Proposition 215 has now spoken
out against it, calling it what we all know it is - a fraud. Keep up
the fight, San Bernardino County.

JP Escobar

San Bernardino

The writer is a volunteer for The Inland Valley Drug Free Community
Coalition; www.ivdfc.org.