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1 <br />Carrasco, Yolanda <br />From:Handa, Marian <br />Sent:Tuesday, February 12, 2013 2:38 PM <br />To:Carrasco, Yolanda <br />Subject:FW: Request to oppose the Medical Marijuana Dispensary idea <br />  <br />  <br />From: Lee, Benny <br />Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 1:13 PM <br />To: Handa, Marian; Chiu, Vivian <br />Cc: Liao, Thomas <br />Subject: FW: Request to oppose the Medical Marijuana Dispensary idea <br /> <br />FYI. <br /> <br />From: graceforte@aol.com [graceforte@aol.com] <br />Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 11:29 PM <br />To: Cassidy, Stephen <br />Cc: Gregory, Michael; Reed, Ursula; Souza, Diana; Lee, Benny; Cutter, Pauline; Prola, Jim <br />Subject: Request to oppose the Medical Marijuana Dispensary idea <br /> <br /> <br />January 29, 2013 <br /> <br />Mayor Stephen Cassidy <br />835 E. 14th St. <br />San Leandro, CA 94577 <br /> <br />Re: Medical Marijuana Dispensary Proposal <br /> <br />Dear Mayor Cassidy, <br /> <br />I want to thank you for serving the residents and businesses of San Leandro as our mayor. I am writing to you to <br />express my strong opposition to the proposal to allow the licensing of medical marijuana facilities to do business in the <br />city of San Leandro. While I am sympathetic to a patient who is undergoing serious medical issues and a physician’s <br />desire to help ease the discomfort of the patient’s ailment, I think it is important to separate a physician-patient issue <br />from that of the allowance of a 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 armed robberies, <br />burglaries, drug dealing, murders, and other violent crimes. In addition, the allowance of these type of facilities will be <br />a cause for potential structural fires, increase in traffic, loitering and noise. It also increases the potential for more <br />drivers being on the road who will be driving while under the influence of marijuana. <br /> <br />By allowing these type of facilities into San Leandro, it is also encouraging usage of this substance among minors <br />which could lead to possible substance abuse and other long term health problems for these minors as they get older. <br /> <br />The lack of rigid regulation and the many possible loopholes for the criminal element of society to manipulate makes <br />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 existing facilities <br />in Oakland and San Lorenzo. It is not necessary to place one here in San Leandro.