To the editor: “The youngsters! The youngsters!” It’s at all times in regards to the kids. (“Cheech and Chong sue California over ban on sure hemp merchandise,” Sept. 27)
Sure, research present that hashish is dangerous for growing brains. However, why single out solely the hashish business to guard children? 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 offered if the alcohol content material is beneath a sure degree, and cigars, cigarettes and vapes can solely be offered if the quantity of nicotine in them can be beneath a sure degree.
Does Sacramento naively suppose that youngsters 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 exhibiting the correct age of the client. But when the state goes to additional burden the hashish business, 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?
After all alcohol has just one restriction: You should be 21 to purchase it. It doesn’t matter how potent or what number of bottles you purchase. And it has much more confirmed harmful results of consumption than marijuana.
However California wouldn’t dare put extra restrictions on the alcohol business, most likely as a result of it makes massive marketing campaign donations to our flesh pressers.
Tony Blake, Woodland Hills
