The Times-Herald, 09 Aug 2012 – An open letter to the Ad Hoc Citizen Public Safety Advisory Committee: Marijuana vs. violence Of course the greatest need is to stop the violence, shootings, drug dealing (I don’t mean the marijuana clinics; I mean real drug dealing on the streets), burglaries, robberies, vehicle thefts, and way down at the bottom, prostitution and vandalism. The police should patrol — either in cars or walking or bicycling — to establish a presence. Arresting people for selling marijuana in clinics is silly, wasteful, and embarrassing for grownup cops. They won’t even come out to take a report on vandalism, and they don’t investigate burglaries or robberies. But they bust marijuana clinics.