Letters to the Editor

06.10.15

Online, June 2: “Bagless: Beware the Dime”

Box it Up

Stores should have boxes at the cash register as an alternative to paper bags. They unpackage all of the items they put on the shelves; where do those boxes go?

Santana Garcia-Chang
via Facebook


Cover, June 2: “A River Trickles Through It”

A Historical Feature

With all due respect, there is not a lot of agriculture going on on the Acequia Madre. It doesn't make sense that after these former agricultural properties become developed with expensive homes that they retain the water rights (look at the North Valley in ABQ). Without agriculture, the acequias are just historical water features.

Will Kessler
SFReporter.com

More Articles Wanted

I would like to see an article about how the city stole the water from local acequias. How does the "living river" affect other water users and well owners affected by the city's well fields? How did the Buckman Diversion dry up agriculture rights?

Paul White
Chupadero, NM

Online, June 3: “At the Crossroads”

End Prohibition

In the prohibitionist's world, anybody who consumes marijuana responsibly in the privacy of their own homes are "stoners" and "dopers" and need to be incarcerated in order to to protect society.

Who are they to tell us we can't choose marijuana, the safer choice instead of alcohol, for relaxation after a long, hard day, in the privacy of our own homes?

To these people, any use equals abuse, and that is really ignorant and full of hypocrisy, while our society promotes, advertises and even glorifies alcohol consumption like it's an All American pastime.

The prohibition of marijuana has not decreased the supply nor the demand for marijuana at all. Not one single iota, and it never will. Just a huge and complete waste of our tax dollars to continue criminalizing citizens for choosing a natural, nontoxic, relatively benign plant proven to be much safer than alcohol.

Brian Kelly
SFReporter.com

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