MEDICAL CANNABIS HAS MANY BENEFITS

Judging from what I've been reading in your letters to the editor
recently, there still seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about
medical cannabis dispensaries and how they affect this community.

One writer in particular inferred that we cause an increase in "drug
gang" activity. The truth is we actually help in putting drug gangs,
who pay no taxes and who put patients in direct contact with other
harder drugs (thus giving law enforcement an excuse to say things
like cannabis is a gateway drug), out of business.

The best thing we do is give our patients a wide variety of strains
to choose from, allowing them to find a strain that can zero in on
their particular ailment. We then will get them clones from that
strain so that they can grow their own. This is the best way we have
right now of seeing to seriously ill patients' needs. Everyone in the
loop pays taxes, excess contributions are donated back to the
community, low income, seriously ill patients get their medicine
free, or at cost, everything is above ground and transparent, and
most of all, these patients have a safe reliable source for clean,
high quality medicine.

The dispensing system described above seems to be working quite well
for everyone ... except, of course, law enforcement.

One has to question their motives in their universal and unanimous
efforts to do away with us, and send us back to some kind of medical
cannabis dark age.

- - Robert Galia, Chico