The Palo Alto city council should partner with the surrounding towns to ensure the Assemblyman Matt Haney' s marijuana cafes stay out of our area. This action is not good for our young people and recent NIH health studies have shown real medical impacts.

"Marijuana also affects brain development. When people begin using marijuana as teenagers, the drug may impair thinking, memory, and learning functions and affect how the brain builds connections between the areas necessary for these functions. Researchers are still studying how long marijuana's effects last and whether some changes may be permanent."

Let move away from the narrative and do what is right.

Why restrict marijuana but not alcohol which has very serious health effects? Adults are capable of making their own decisions and you'd certainly have fewer bar fights and violence.

Newsom's vetoes are getting stranger by the week including this one and telegraph which lobbyists he's courting for campaign $$$$$. He's now rejected calls to limit the cost of diabetes meds, to rein in home insurers, the protect us from the dangers of self-driving cars and trucks, to prevent mass layoffs in the trucking industry, etc....

At least former Mountain View Mayor Lenny Siegel tried to get the autonomous vehicle companies to add obvious safety features Web Link that the companies unfortunately rejected as an unnecessary expense.

Newsom's vetoes are strange because he's a strange man. One plus one equals two. The only thing he does well is campaign for office. You get who you vote for.

In reality, alcohol and marijuana are unhealthy. Consume at your own risk. Like anything unhealthy, there are consequences.

Are youth have been told a false story that marijuana is harmless. It's not, and we have way too many young people who are using regularly.

Is this the "cutting edge" of who we are what we want our communities to be?

Forget about Newsom, what would Mr. Rogers say?

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Our society has spent hundreds of years developing social institutions to deal with alcohol use, but not with cannabis use. Modern cannabis has been engineered to be often 10x as potent as pot of the 1960s. We should hold off before running a giant brain development experiment on our youth.

Newsom is just positioning himself to avoid being cast as an out-of-touch SF progressive when he runs for President soon.

On another note, California is the first state to ban Skittles. Why is fruity candy a priority?

Skittles, or more correctly the chemical titanium dioxide found in skittles, is banned in Europe. In fact many popular American snacks such as Pop Tarts, Little Debbie and Gatorade are banned in Europe. I would think that the banning of these products has no connection to Cannabis Cafes and whether they should exist in California.

I understand it’s easy to prove alcohol impairment when operating a motor vehicle and an accident occurs, God forbid when others are injured or killed. It is not so for marijuana use. Apparently one could have used it sometime prior - within a month? - so there is a defense of the marijuana-spaced out driver who runs granny down. They test “positive,” but, oh, it could be they aren’t technically proved to be impaired, they just used on earlier days.
I don’t want ANY impaired drivers on the road!
I see no upside to particularly promoting either liquor or marijuana, especially near minors.