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The local congressman's changed stance on medical marijuana supports justice, a constituent writes.

EDITOR,

I was very pleased to learn Congressman Jerry McNerney has changed his position on Proposition 215 (California’s medical marijuana initiative) and supports liberty and justice for all in the 11th Congressional District.

This is in stark contrast to challenger Dean Andal, who not only fails to defend liberty and justice for all in the 11th District but also betrays California’s democracy by siding with the federal government against our state’s democratic process. Andal’s belief that Californians are too stupid to make their own decisions by calling for the federal government to destroy honest citizens faithfully working within the system speaks volumes about his version of limited government.

Can the Congressional challenger tell us what gives the federal government authority to override Proposition 215 when the 10th Amendment says, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people”?

Can Andal explain how providing gangsters with the sole profitable medical marijuana distributorship in Stockton reduces crime in that city? Will he cite “deterrence” while our overflowing prisons prove him false? Unquestioning support for bankrupt and failed solutions calls Andal’s legislative competence into question. Limit government, not liberty.

— Glenn White, Dublin

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