San Diego Union Tribune, 27 May 2013 – Your editorial "Medical marijuana: A big mess may get even bigger" (utsandiego.com, May 21) got it backward on medical marijuana. Sen. Steinberg’s bill is hardly "radical"; it simply clarifies existing law, as established in the Medical Marijuana Program Act and attorney general’s guidelines, which provide for dispensing by medical marijuana collectives. These dispensaries have worked fine in communities which, unlike San Diego, have had the wit to pass local ordinances regulating them. The chaos has been caused by those who, like the U-T, refuse to recognize Prop. 215’s mandate to implement a "safe and affordable" distribution system for medical marijuana. As for the notion that medical marijuana should be restricted to specific diseases with fingerprinting and background checks, how can this be justified when other, far more dangerous prescription narcotics are dispensed with no such restrictions?

San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Sep 2010 – Your concerns about Proposition 19 are misplaced ("No on Prop. 19," Sept. 16). Prop. 19 offers the major benefit of ending the bankrupt regime of marijuana prohibition and allowing it to be legally regulated and taxed.