Cannabis has been in use worldwide for over 5,000 years. We know what it does, we know what it is good for and we know the issues with using it. Cannabis at its very worst is much safer and less damaging to the user and society than the current legal alternatives.

Alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceutical drugs are directly responsible for KILLING over 650,000 US citizens annually plus another 21,000 TRAFFIC DEATHS from alcohol and pharmaceutical intoxication. Cannabis has never killed one person from toxic intoxication and has almost no statistical history of traffic problems. It is therefore, complete nonsense to apply laws and restrictions to cannabis more stringent than what are applied to booze, pills and cigarettes. It is also clear that prohibitionist laws against cannabis have nothing to do with relative consumer safety.

The most dangerous aspect of cannabis consumption is running afoul of lazy law enforcement looking for soft targets instead of fighting real crime.

Legalize, regulate and TAX NOW!

I am sure that MP City Council will ban medical cannibis in a typical knee jerk reaction to the thinking that crime will follow. Mean while the city will do nothing about the homeless guys smoking weed on SC in the middle of the day.

Well it's evil, wicked, mean, and nasty
(Don't step on the grass, Sam)
And it will ruin our fair country
(Don't be such an ass, Sam)
-- Steppenwolf

Ironically, I am not a supporter of the legalization of marijuana. That said, Colorado has laid it all out and I cannot find a reason not so support it: Thus the irony. I would say why not do it, get the revenue and the tax, help the schools and of course enforce the laws as Colorado does - seems like a win .... yes, I never thought I would say that.... apparently MP has not read up on the stats and the results of less crime, and more city revenue

The cannabis cultivation issue is mostly, as far as I can tell, an unintended consequence of a poorly written law. The ban is effectively a reservation of a future right to regulate.

As for the Roger Reynolds site - let's allow some development! There seems to be an unwritten rule that anything not in use has to be an eyesore for at least 10 years before the NIMBYs blink and something useful happens.