McLudricous Idea

There are lots of mindless ideas that permeate Letters to the Editor in many publications.
Ideas that are quickly forgotten.
Today there was one in our local paper.

Here's one that hit Vernon's Morning Star newspaper on Wednesday, March 13th, 2019:

"Caution Urged for Medicinal Marijuana Use, by Maureen McClocklin

Medical cannabis is the devil you don't know, yet.

It is here now, asking for a license to grow and distribute.  In my opinion, not enough sober thought (pardon the pun) has gone into the many consequences of this.  It is proclaimed by a local company to be therapeutic for pets and their owners.

"...an agreement should be signed

 making it mandatory

 for vegetables to be

 given equal space for growing."

       Maureen McClocklin                          

Therapeutic, as defined in the dictionary, is 1:  contributing to the cure of disease; 2:  Contributing to general mental well being.  We all know No. 1 does not apply to cannabis and No. 2, Google medical experts point to a dangerous link between high THC content and psychosis.

So the above proclamation is not factually true.  It has been reported where greenhouses that previously grew vegetables are switching to cannabis because it is hundreds of times more profitable.  That is extremely disturbing.  While cannabis growers become significantly richer, vegetables will become significantly more expensive.

There is a solution, however.  When giving out licenses an agreement should be signed making it mandatory for vegetables to be given equal space for growing."  Maureen McClocklin


No, the stupid idea wasn't that Google has medical experts.
That wasn't the mcludicrous idea.

The stupid comment is that anyone who receives a license for growing medical cannabis must sign an agreement which requires vegetables to be grown in the equivalent amount of space to that occupied by the medical cannabis.
  
And this, presumably, is to keep down the price of vegetables.  Her vegetables.

"How about you growing some chickens, and we'll buy cheap eggs from you," Kia would've stated.

Because eggs are "hundreds of times less profitable" than medical cannabis!

And thank you, Maureen, for the cheap eggs.
Because I didn't want to raise chickens and grow eggs.  Or cheap vegetables.
For you.
Or for me.