LETTER: Cannabis stores will bring shootings, stabbings, robberies

Editor’s Note: This letter is in response to prior letters regarding the city’s consideration of allowing cannabis dispensaries. LETTER: Citrus Heights should welcome cannabis dispensaries

By Bill Bird, Citrus Heights–
Do you want more crime in Citrus Heights? Urge your City Council to support and allow stores that sell marijuana or dope. Your prayers will be answered. These places are crime magnets.

That’s not my opinion. It’s in the statistics compiled by California’s Department of Cannabis (Dope) Control. Shootings, stabbings, armed robberies, poisonings, and assaults are the type of crimes you can expect in Citrus Heights if the stoners manage to gain a foothold here.

People who support dispensaries in our neighborhoods told us that crime would vanish with legal dope. They lied. The bodies of six men recently shot to death in a Southern California desert over a “legal” dope deal gone wrong would testify to that. If they could.

I suffer from chronic back pain. I will choose dope over prescription medication every time when the Ibuprofen isn’t strong enough. But choosing one puff over one pill is a far cry from allowing legal dope stores to take over our neighborhoods and schools. It’s not worth it.

The children who represent the future of Citrus Heights are exposed to enough as it is. Don’t add to it. Open the door to dope and Fentanyl will come knocking. Legal pot, and the trouble it brings, is available just around the corner in Sacramento. It’s not needed in Citrus Heights.

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