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Letter: Regulation vital to legalized pot

The Columbian
Published: January 13, 2014, 4:00pm

Regardless of whether or not marijuana is legal, consumption patterns of current users are unlikely to change, especially without education and treatment programs funded under Initiative 502. Underage children already have access to marijuana, and I-502 could help to make it unprofitable for drug dealers to do business in Clark County.

It’s not a question of will marijuana be consumed, but of where and how the revenue will be directed — the backstreet drug dealer that feeds the money into organized crime or will it go to the state and our community to fund needed programs?

It makes no sense to change the law to allow the public to have marijuana without addressing where it is sourced. To do otherwise effectively protects the income of drug dealers in Clark County.

Jackie Marsden

Vancouver

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