Gone missing
The voters in Lucerne are sad to report that their beloved leader, 3rd District Supervisor Jim Steele, is M.I.I., Missing in Inaction! Our Supervisor announced two months ago that he was undertaking a covert operation. He stated that his meeting with 5 non-profit water districts and Cal Water, Lucerne’s for-profit water company, was going to be wrapped in secrecy, but this protocol was necessary so that nobody would know what was happening. His constituents have neither heard from Supervisor Steele nor any activity in this regard since then.
If anyone has heard from Supervisor Steele about lowering Lucerne’s water rates, please contact his constituents.
A concerned voter,
Charles Moton, Lucerne
Where is the common sense?
This is regarding Lt. Gov. Newsom’s article comments in the Saturday, May 30 Record-Bee. Let’s get back to the roots of this whole issue: MEDICAL USE ONLY. Nothing was ever brought up about recreational use until the growers and the illegal users felt that now they got the medical part accepted. With their foot in the door, they would push to have recreational uses. RECREATIONAL does not constitute MEDICAL purposes. These are two entirely different applications and uses. Bottom line is to regulate medical usage and control with stringent criteria’s and enforce the proper application for the statement of medical use only. This is a Schedule I drug, which should be under strict doctor prescriptions just like other pharmaceuticals from a reputable pharmacy.
Anyone else’s use is and shall be federally illegal, just like any other narcotic. To keep on reinventing the wheel to appease the abusers of this weed, that is beneficial in some cases, but not for anyone who goes and gives a reason of a headache, stomach ache, back ache, hang nail, etcetera. There are people who definitely need and have good reason for the medical components of this weed. Doctors should be held to strict tight guidelines of when to consider the use of this weed for medical use only. This was never supposed to be used to get high. Let’s look at the real reason most people want to use this weed.
Medical use only. End of story. Recreational was NEVER supposed to enter into this issue, but that was the real reason behind the push to have the sympathizer’s approval of the medical issue. Now the real reason is just being allowed to get high. My question to you is where is the common sense on this issue?
Obviously then you have the bad element who no matter what type of regulations you have on this weed, they will break the laws and regulations set forth to have a sensible control on this. Those types of people are the ones that have to be dealt with by laws already on the books.
There is NO room for compromise on this issue. Medical is what was agreed on and that should be it. Plain, simple, and straight forward. No reading between the lines or back door deals. We have enough corruption in our world and society today. Let’s not add more neighborhood heartaches and issue to what we already have on our plates. This has to end and put this issue to rest. Change for the good is acceptable, but not for the worse. This only opens a can of worms we do not need. Once again, I say, where is the common sense on this issue? We have enough problems with abusive use of drugs in this country. Why should we add to the ever growing nuisance issues? Believe me it will create much more of a problem than to remedy it. Recreational use should not even be considered.
Gary Schurdell, Lakeport
Time for a change
I think it is time to stop using the word “black” as a primary identifier for some Americans. For me, the last straw was the book club group that (apparently) misbehaved enough to disturb other passengers on the wine train. They were asked to leave the train as the company has done many other times in similar situations. I suspect that most of us have had similar experiences and feel that the train did the correct thing. But no, turns out the group was a group of 11 women, only one of whom was white, so, of course, the emphasis changed from misbehavior to presumption of racial prejudice and that blacks were being maligned and badly treated. The fact that their behavior was such that they disturbed other passengers seems to have been “misplaced” by the media. I have searched, but have found no interviews with any of the other passengers and I would think that would be necessary for fair judgment. Now, a few days later, the rail line has issued a statement that the company was 100 percent wrong in its handling of the incident. Something is wrong!
Laws and ordinances (and such) are designed to deal with actions and behaviors, not with the color of your skin. On the other hand, the first descriptor in defining a human being is too often the most noticeable characteristic, the apparent color of the person’s skin. And far too often the color is used as a proxy variable for behavior. Time to change and recognize that what people call “black” is far more attitudinal than “racial.”
In the apprehension process the one who is perceived to be perpetrating “out of normal” behavior is considered guilty until proven innocent. It is their “aberrant” behavior that attracts those charged with maintaining order. If approached by a law enforcement representative one is expected by society to yield and explain. If you are not guilty you simply do not charge the officer in a challenging or threatening manner (officer’s decision). In the past year I have seen much concerning “working” with law enforcement attitudes with some apparent favorable result. Personally, I think it is time the communities that seem to originates so many (alleged) misbehavers do some work to modify the community’s attitudes and work to solve the problem.
Guff Worth, Lakeport
