Dear Editor,
I think the only way to legalize ANY drug is to have a doctor
examine the patient, the doctor gives his patient a prescription,
the patient takes the prescription to a pharmacy I.E. CVS, Rite-Aid
or Walgreens, and the pharmacy fills the prescription.
Have a doctor’s prescription for marijuana, fine, visit a pharmacy
Dear Editor,
I think the only way to legalize ANY drug is to have a doctor examine the patient, the doctor gives his patient a prescription, the patient takes the prescription to a pharmacy I.E. CVS, Rite-Aid or Walgreens, and the pharmacy fills the prescription.
Seems simple to me … NONE of this street-corner marijuana dispensary stuff!
Jacqui Holladay, Gilroy
The Golden Quill is awarded occasionally for a well-written letter.
Dismantle the dysfunctional VTA before it bankrupts everyone
Dear Editor,
The Valley Transportation Authority’s track record of insolvency mounted countless times on top of greater insolvency, at the taxpayers’ expense, is a model of failure just like history shows us with the Soviet Union.
It serves as an accurate predictor of how socialized medicine will be if we continue to Sovietize our country – successful until other people’s money runs out.
We should stop worshipping the false God Socialism, or expect the same fate as befell the USSR.
Where are the leaders willing to abolish the VTA right now, today? Yet VTA is in denial, like a heroin addict begging for one more fix. Better we jettison VTA today than hang it around the necks of our children and grandchildren. VTA scofflaws make the robber barons of yesteryear look like altar boys. And if people want train rides, then they ought to pay for them, not require their neighbors to pay 99 percent of the cost of their luxury socialist rail transport. Caveat viator.
Joe Thompson, Gilroy
Marijuana prohibition has failed miserably and makes no sense
Dear Editor,
If health outcomes determined drug laws instead of cultural norms, marijuana would be legal. Unlike alcohol, marijuana has never been shown to cause an overdose death, nor does it share the addictive properties of tobacco. Like any drug, marijuana can be harmful if abused, but jail cells are inappropriate as health interventions and ineffective as deterrents.
The first marijuana laws were enacted in response to Mexican immigration during the early 1900s, despite opposition from the American Medical Association.
Dire warnings that marijuana inspires homicidal rages have been counterproductive at best. White Americans did not even begin to smoke pot until a soon-to-be entrenched federal bureaucracy began funding reefer madness propaganda.
Marijuana prohibition has failed miserably as a deterrent. The U.S. has higher rates of marijuana use than the Netherlands, where marijuana is legally available to adults over 18. The only clear winners in the war on marijuana are drug cartels and shameless tough-on-drugs politicians who’ve built careers confusing drug prohibition’s collateral damage with a relatively harmless plant.
Robert Sharpe, policy analyst,
Common Sense for Drug Policy, Washington, D.C.
Fire chief didn’t nix the idea of cooking at the Sunrise Station
Dear Editor,
Mark Derry’s column mentioned that fire Chief Dale Foster had nixed the idea of using the fire station on Sunrise Drive for a cooking show produced by Gavilan TV.
When I called the chief about the possibilities of doing our Great Kitchens of Gilroy cooking show there, he was very open to the idea. I was the one who chose not to film there.
We have completed our fourth show and already have the fifth kitchen planned for filming. If there is a chance to do additional shows, we would love to include the firehouse in a cooking segment and thank Chief Foster for his openness to the idea.
Sam Bozzo, Gilroy
