From: "Latoya Ayers"
<membership@mpp.org>
Date: 2/15/2016 4:25:38 PM
To: "Haley,
Nikki" <NikkiHaley@gov.sc.gov>
Cc:
Subject: Taxing and
regulating marijuana keeps it out of the hands of children
Feb
15, 2016
Governor Nikki Haley
Office of the Governor
1205
Pendleton Street
Columbia, SC 29201
Dear Governor
Haley,
Please work to enact legislation to tax and regulate
marijuana in a
manner similar to alcohol and tobacco in our state. This
will free up
significant law enforcement resources and put an end to
the underground
marijuana market.
Sellers of marijuana are
currently completely unregulated. Unlike
licensed businesses that sell
alcohol or tobacco, marijuana sellers
operate virtually anywhere and
have no incentive not to sell to
children.
A law regulating
marijuana like alcohol or tobacco would put an end to
this. Sellers
would be regulated, destroying the market for illegal
marijuana and
stopping sales to minors. This would also free up our
court dockets and
allow police officers to spend more time
investigating and arresting
violent offenders. Colorado and Washington
State voters have chosen a
new approach to marijuana, to bring it off
the criminal
market.
An October 2013 Gallup poll found that 58% of Americans
think marijuana
should be legal. Please follow the will of the American
people and
introduce or support legislation to help replace wasteful,
ineffective
laws with policies that put drug dealers out of
business.
Sincerely,
Ms. Latoya Ayers
3430 Broad River Rd
Apt 504
Columbia, SC
29210-5439
ayerslatoya11@gmail.com
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