Letters: Alcohol kills, but it's 'impossible to overdose on cannabis'
Nov 20, 2009
Alcohol kills, but it's 'impossible to overdose on cannabis'
Dear Editor,
I find it sad that in today's world there are still newspapers like yours that will not take the time to see that there are true legitimate reasons for medical cannabis.
I urge you to take just a few minutes to educate your staff with facts. Here is one for you that you will find hard to believe. People die from alcohol abuse and overdose everyday,
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO OVERDOSE ON CANNABIS. We need people especially people in the media to get away from the slanderous not fact based reporting. Please look into the situation and give both sides.
Ed Esters, Morgan Hill
Marijuana dispensary owner points to 'great personal sacrifices' made
Dear Editor,
MediLeaf opened Monday, Nov. 9, 2009 as a Not-for-Profit Mutual Benefit Corporation according to the attorney general guidelines with a two-step verification process and as a closed-loop collective. Our attorneys reviewed the Gilroy City Code and advised us that under our not-for-profit structure it would allow us to open our doors. We opened in an effort to assist medical patients who have a doctor's recommendation for cannabis. We sincerely mean no disrespect to anyone.
We would like to continue to work with the Gilroy City Council to complete writing the Medical Cannabis Ordinance for the City of Gilroy. In addition, we would like to mitigate in an effort to reach an amicable compromise rather than expensive litigation that neither MediLeaf nor the City of Gilroy residents would like to afford.
In five days of operation, more than 250 new members have joined Medileaf and a large percentage are Gilroy residents. Nineteen of them are U.S. veterans, the oldest 83 years old who served on the USS Enterprise. Undoubtedly, there is an overwhelming need for this collective in Gilroy and two-thirds of the Gilroy voters are in support of our operations and the use of medical cannabis by qualified patients.
Please consider those patients and residents in Gilroy who truly need our services. Many of us involved have made great personal sacrifices for the patients in Gilroy who truly benefit from the use of medicinal cannabis for their pain and suffering. We have been blessed to be able to help others in our community whose lives are being cut short by terminal illness or traumatic accidents. I hope that you will also feel such compassion and support us to continue to service our community in a safe, responsible and legal manner.
Batzi Kuburovich, Gilroy
'Feeble' answer by Red Phone regarding flag covered boat
Dear Editor,
Red Phone's (Nov. 13) answer to our flag covering a boat was feeble. Our flag is a symbol - a symbol of our freedom, the freedom to criticize our President and Congress, etc., the freedom to employ our Bill of Rights, and yes, the freedom to desecrate our flag, which I personally find odious.
A symbol must never take priority over that which it symbolizes.
Bob Wylde, Morgan Hill
What is gained by columnist attacking religion as a whole?
Dear Editor,
Just another few notes regarding the Lisa Pampuch column in the Times and John Quick's letter under that same subject: First, my letter was not written to rebuke anything, including the First Amendment on religion interpretation.
This is an ongoing debate and is defined by who is seated in the Supreme Court and whom you are talking to at the time. Not an argument easily won. And the law is not clear. Just to help John out on the writing of the Constitution, the law was written because governments all over the world imposed their religion on the population. Of course, this is still going on in some parts of the world. It had nothing to do with the "majority" versus the "minority."
I just wondered why Lisa would take the time to write an article with a subject that put religion in such a bad light. It is easy to find fault with religion. There are many zealots as Lisa pointed out. But why attack religion as a whole? What was the point? What is gained by alienating part of the population with this diatribe? Then we have this contact reference to "right wing religious fanatics" that occasionally pops up. What does the left have against religion?
I did read "Animal Farm." Sounds more like what is going on in Washington right now. What this book had to do with religion escapes me.
Critical thinking is a mystery to me. What is it? Is it a thought that is in complete compliance with Lisa's point of view? As for a dose of tolerance, I must have missed this in her column.
Of interest, on this very page of the Times opinion, the headline is: St. Catherine's been serving the community for a century. It starts with a CHEERS.
Fred Oliveri, Morgan Hill
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