Leticia Pepper Letter May 7, 2016

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Morton, Sherry From: Letitia Pepper <letitiapepper @yahoo.com> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2016 9:26 AM To: Bailey, Rusty; Gardner, Mike; Melendrez,Andy; Soubirous, Mike; Davis, Paul; MacArthur, Chris; Perry,Jim; Burnard,John; Geuss, Gary; Russo,John A.; Morton, Sherry Cc: yahoogroups;yahoogroups;yahoogroups;yahoogroups; Alicia Robinson; Dan Bernstein; Cassie MacDuff; Letters;Thirtymiles Corruption; Lanny Swerdlow; Matthew Pappas Subject: [External] I Am Still waiting to Know Who at City Hall Is Negotiating the Opening of Three Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Hon. Mayor, City Council Members, City Manager, City Attorney, Madame Clerk: Not long ago I sent all of you an e-mail asking who at City Hall has been discussing letting three medical marijuana dispensaries open. I asked this based on Council Member Andy Melendrez' appearance at a Brownie Mary Democratic Club (BMDC) meeting earlier this year. At that meeting, he was introduced as having been somewhat supportive of patients' constitutionally-protected right to grow as much medical marijuana as they personally need, because he was in favor of not creating a total ban on cultivation, and letting people grow 8 plants. As an aside, you already know where I stand: any such limit is a violation of Prop. 215 and the California Constitution, Article 2, section 10, subsection (c), as stated in People v. Kelly (2010) 47 Cal.4th 1008. Councilmember Melendrez sent me an e-mail purporting to explain why he said this at the BMDC meeting. His explanation is that he was simply repeating something he said from the dais during that discussion. But that is not what he said during that City Council meeting. I am willing to bet that all of you know that no one ever said, at that public City Council meeting, that the City was discussing letting three medical marijuana dispensaries open. So what's going on? And why did Lanny Swerdlow, the person who created and runs the BMDC meetings, know to ask Mr. Meledrrez to come and say that? I am asking this because I suspect that there is some corruption involved letting any dispensaries be chosen by the City to open. There is a lot of corruption in California, because of all the money from the Marijuana Mafia. In fact, here is a rather mild-mannered article about the corruption in California's capital, the City of Sacramento: Green Rush: Inside the Big Business of Pot Permits Green Rush: Inside the Big Business of Pot Permits SACRAMENTO- Ti]is isn't like any drug deal story youCve ever heard. Pot teeters on the edge of a ballot box.poi... 1