LOCALLY GROWN POT BETTER THAN BLACK MARKET

I'm writing about Diana Mitchell's (July 26) letter: "Too many
potheads fake illness."

Suppose that half, or even more than half, of the people who purchase
medical marijuana don't really need it for medical reasons. That means
that they are not buying their marijuana from drug dealers who get
their marijuana via the Mexican drug cartels.

And it also means that they are not buying their marijuana from drug
dealers who also sell other, much more dangerous drugs, like meth,
heroin and cocaine. Most marijuana consumers prefer to buy locally
grown marijuana of known quality, known purity and known potency.

But if they can't, they buy black market marijuana.

Kirk Muse,

Mesa, Ariz.