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1 <br />Carrasco, Yolanda <br />From:Handa, Marian <br />Sent:Tuesday, February 12, 2013 2:48 PM <br />To:Carrasco, Yolanda <br />Subject:FW: Medical Marijuana Dispensary Proposal <br />  <br />  <br />From: Lee, Benny <br />Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 1:46 PM <br />To: Handa, Marian; Chiu, Vivian <br />Subject: FW: Medical Marijuana Dispensary Proposal <br /> <br /> <br />From: Mark Macalik [mark656678@yahoo.com] <br />Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 11:33 AM <br />To: Lee, Benny <br />Subject: Medical Marijuana Dispensary Proposal <br />February 12, 2013 <br /> <br />Councillor Benny Lee <br />835 E. 14th St. <br />San Leandro, CA 94577 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Dear Councillor Lee, <br /> <br />I want to thank you for serving the residents and businesses of San Leandro as our councillor. 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 <br />is undergoing serious medical issues and a physician’s desire to help ease the discomfort of the <br />patient’s ailment, I think it is important to separate a physician-patient issue from that of the allowance <br />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 <br />armed robberies, burglaries, drug dealing, murders, and other violent crimes. In addition, the <br />allowance of these type of facilities will be a cause for potential structural fires, increase in traffic, <br />loitering and noise. It also increases the potential for more drivers being on the road who will be <br />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 <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.