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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: Marijuana Dispensary <br />Attachments:Marijuana Dispensary Opposition.docx <br />  <br />  <br />From: Lee, Benny <br />Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 1:45 PM <br />To: Handa, Marian; Chiu, Vivian <br />Cc: Liao, Thomas <br />Subject: FW: Marijuana Dispensary <br /> <br /> <br />From: Rebekah Kotlar [rebekahkotlar@yahoo.com] <br />Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 10:59 AM <br />To: Cassidy, Stephen; Gregory, Michael; Reed, Ursula; Souza, Diana; Lee, Benny; Cutter, Pauline; Prola, Jim <br />Subject: Marijuana Dispensary <br />February 12, 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 />I want to thank you for serving the residents and businesses of San Leandro as our mayor. As an educator and citizen of <br />San Leandro, I am 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 undergoing <br />serious medical issues (I live with a painful, incurable medical condition) and a physician’s desire to help ease the <br />discomfort of the patient’s ailments, I think it is important to separate a physician-patient issue from that of the <br />allowance of a marijuana dispensary facility being allowed to do business in San Leandro. <br />  <br />Allowing this type of facility into San Leandro will greatly encourage increased crime including armed robberies, <br />burglaries, drug dealing, murders, domestic violence, crimes against minors, and other violent crimes. In addition, the <br />allowance of this type of facility will be a cause for potential structural fires, increase in traffic, loitering and noise. The <br />fiscal impact on our Police and Fire Departments and the safety of our police officers and firemen should cause every <br />citizen of San Leandro to oppose this proposal. The legalization of medical marijuana facilities also increases the <br />potential for more drivers being on the road who will be driving while under the influence of marijuana. <br />  <br />Allowing this type of facility into San Leandro will also encourage use of this substance among minors which could <br />lead to possible substance abuse and other long term health problems for these minors as they get older. As a local <br />educator, I cannot condone the legalization of medical marijuana dispensaries in our city. Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol <br />(THC), the psychoactive chemical in marijuana, impacts student concentration, problem-solving, decision-making, <br />memory, perception, intelligence quotient, executive functioning skills, and coordination. The potential impact on <br />students in San Leandro should cause every citizen of San Leandro to oppose this proposal.