Sacramento Bee, 21 Jul 2012 – Re "Wildlands caught in drug war crossfire" (Editorials, July 18): Your editorial rightly noted that there can be human costs to the pesticides used in illegal pot grows, in addition to the disasters befalling wildlife like the Pacific fishers. When vulnerable patients use medical cannabis as part of their treatments, they can be exposed to and endangered by the same harsh pesticides used by growers against animals. It is yet another reason for California to enact effective regulations to make control the production and distribution of the medical cannabis approved by voters more than a decade ago. Wildlife and medical patients both deserve to be protected from criminal growing operations, and I will continue to promote legislation that will help make them safe.
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