US CA: PUB LTE: Legalize Marijuana

Porterville Recorder, 07 Jan 2013 – Editor, Regarding your Dec. 27 editorial, if marijuana were fully legal there would be no backyard residential growers cashing in on inflated medical marijuana prices. Legitimate farmers would produce it by the ton at a fraction of the current cost. There is a reason you don’t see Mexican drug cartels sneaking into national forests to cultivate tomatoes and cucumbers. They cannot compete with a legal market.