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2 <br />Dear Councilmember Lee, <br /> <br />I want to thank you for serving the residents and businesses of San Leandro as our councilmember. I am <br />writing to you to express my strong opposition to the proposal to allow the licensing of medical <br />marijuana facilities to do business in the city of San Leandro. While I am sympathetic to a patient who is <br />undergoing serious medical issues and a physician’s desire to help ease the discomfort of the patient’s <br />ailment, I think it is important to separate a physician-patient issue from that of the allowance of a <br />marijuana dispensary facility being allowed to do business in San Leandro. <br /> <br />By allowing these type of facilities into San Leandro will greatly encourage increased crime including <br />armed robberies, burglaries, drug dealing, murders, and other violent crimes. In addition, the allowance <br />of these type of facilities will be a cause for potential structural fires, increase in traffic, loitering and <br />noise. It also increases the potential for more drivers being on the road who will be driving while under <br />the influence of marijuana. <br /> <br />By allowing these type of facilities into San Leandro, it is also encouraging usage of this substance <br />among minors which could lead to possible substance abuse and other long term health problems for <br />these minors as they get older. <br />The lack of rigid regulation and the many possible loopholes for the criminal element of society to <br />manipulate makes the idea of a medical marijuana facility a very bad proposition for San Leandro. <br />I am asking that you and our other council members not move forward with this proposal. There are <br />existing facilities in Oakland and San Lorenzo. It is not necessary to place one here in San Leandro. <br />Thank you for taking the time to review and take under consideration my request for you to oppose the <br />medical marijuana dispensary idea. <br />Sincerely, <br />Dexter Fong