Please tell these drug dealers to push their drugs in their neighborhoods and not in mine.

That rich lawyer who setup Buddies lived in Palo Alto, not Mountain View. Put your drug dealing in your community not mine. I've got kids to raise.

I saw firsthand how many druggies were coming into the neighborhood with Buddies. All those druggies are potential criminals coming in from some other neighborhood. I'm sure all these people were really "medically sick." Yeah right.

My kid got a 970 API on the STAR test. That is better than Palo Alto or Los Altos. Instead of helping me raise my kids you guys put drug dealers and child molesters in my neighborhood.

I have pain every minute of every day and I have tried every pill I can but what works for me is marijuana. What they can offer me at these places can actually help me. I totally understand that "type" of person that these please can attract but they also attract people like me. I need this in order to live a normal life. Please let it happen. Please see the bigger picture.

To "patient in need" and others like yourself,
Please do contact me if you wouldn't mind your story told in the Voice. You can reach me at ddebolt@mv-voice.com. Parents who are seriously concerned about the presence of dispensaries in MV may contact me as well. Thanks.

I guess you would rather have your kids buying their pot from people who also push meth and crack

Anonymous trolls aside, the vast majority of Santa Clara residents (probably 70-80%) favor making medical cannabis available to qualified patients. The Peninsula is host to tens of thousands of medical cannabis patients who use cannabis to treat a wide variety of physical and phycological conditions. Mountain View should take the compassionate and ethical stand to protect the sick and suffering in our midst.

Unlike street dealers, cannabis dispensaries don't sell to children. And unlike Walgreens, the medicine offered in dispensaries has never been linked to a single death from overdose or allergic reaction in all of recorded history. In the heart of Silicon Valley public policy should be based on science and facts rather than ignorance and superstition.

Why do parents always make ignorant statements about drugs and their kids?

Fact: All of your kids can purchase drugs at their schools from drug dealers who sell other harder drugs. Those drug dealers don't ask for a doctor's consent, don't pay taxes and don't care if your child overdoses!

Fact: Your kids can't buy Medical Cannabis from a regulated dispensary! They can't even walk in the door.

Educate and regulate. Allow sick patients safe access to medicine now.

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