To the editor: “The youngsters! The youngsters!” It’s all the time in regards to the kids. (“Cheech and Chong sue California over ban on certain hemp products,” Sept. 27)
Sure, research present that hashish is unhealthy for growing brains. However, why single out solely the hashish trade to guard youngsters? As a result of it’s the latest?
Since California is implementing guidelines banning the sale of hemp merchandise with a detectable quantity of the psychoactive substance THC in them, then we must always concurrently rule that wine and spirits can solely be bought if the alcohol content material is beneath a sure degree, and cigars, cigarettes and vapes can solely be bought if the quantity of nicotine in them can be beneath a sure degree.
Does Sacramento naively suppose that children don’t drink or smoke?
These merchandise are for the authorized use of adults solely. It’s advantageous for the state to mandate that dispensaries, as with liquor shops, require IDs displaying the right age of the client. But when the state goes to additional burden the hashish trade, which the federal authorities already restricts, it’s truthful to acknowledge that the state can be proscribing the rights of adults who want to buy these authorized merchandise.
Barry Davis, Agoura Hills
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To the editor: Isn’t it good to know the California Division of Public Well being is now coming down with powerful restrictions on small companies that promote merchandise containing hemp to guard younger folks? So what in the event that they drive these of us out of enterprise?
In fact alcohol has just one restriction: You have to be 21 to purchase it. It doesn’t matter how potent or what number of bottles you purchase. And it has way more confirmed harmful results of consumption than marijuana.
However California wouldn’t dare put extra restrictions on the alcohol trade, in all probability as a result of it makes massive marketing campaign donations to our flesh pressers.
Tony Blake, Woodland Hills
