{"id":228512,"date":"2016-01-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/letters-to-the-editor-jan-15-2016\/"},"modified":"2016-01-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T08:00:00","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-jan-15-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/letters-to-the-editor-jan-15-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the editor \u2013 Jan. 15, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

New playground for Rancho Mission Park needs input<\/strong><\/h3>\n

At the January meeting of the Allied Gardens Recreation Council (AGRC), Amy Hoffman with KTU&A, the city\u2019s consultant for developing the design the new playground at Rancho Mission Park, gave a presentation on two concepts for the playground. You can view the two concepts on the Navajo Community Planners (NCPI) website at navajoplanners.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

City staff and the consultant are interested in our feedback so they can return to the March 1 meeting of the AGRC with a final proposal to be voted on by the council. Following the presentation, and working with city staff and Hoffman, we have an updated survey for the playground on the NCPI website.<\/p>\n

If you have children and\/or use the park, please take the time to complete the short survey so the final design represents what the people who use the park and the playground really want. Please complete the survey by Feb. 28. Your survey counts.<\/p>\n

\u2013Jay Wilson, Del Cerro<\/em><\/p>\n

A letter from George Washington<\/strong><\/p>\n

Your article entitled \u201cDispensaries in Limbo\u201d [Volume 21, Issue 12 or bit.ly\/1OhDxZd<\/a>]<\/em> regarding \u201cmedical marijuana\u201d has me bothered as an owner of 40 acres of hemp plants. The opposition of numerous persons of growing a plant which Mr. Jefferson has described as \u201cadding a useful plant (hemp) to our culture\u201d has many uses including fiber, paper, medicine and recreational uses. Many of the authors of our recently adopted Constitution smoked its bud, called \u201cmarijuana\u201d by the Spanish who smoked it for pleasure. As did many of our delegates while creating the Constitution in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

I recently met a seer who had done some predictions on laws relating to drugs. He had read a professor\u2019s paper entitled \u201cA History of the Criminalization of Cannabis\u201d which described lies by a bureaucrat with a title of \u2018Narcotics Commissioner\u2019 about this useful plant, claiming it was \u201csmoked by Hispanics, Filipinos, Negroes and entertainers (such as Billie Holiday); was the most violence-causing in the history of mankind; and when white women smoke it, they want to have sexual relations with Negroes.\u201d All nonsense. House Ways and Means passed the Marijuana Bill over the opposition of the American Medical Association, forbidding a useful medicine without a huge tax. This is the plant that my Virginia colony required all farmers to grow in the early 1700s!<\/p>\n

If Congress, during my tenure in office as president, sends me such a bill, I will veto it, announcing, \u201cMake use of the hemp plant, grow it everywhere!\u201d Such a stupid law should not be passed!<\/p>\n

\u2013George Washington, Constitutional Convention<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

[Editor\u2019s note: Actual author: Robert W. Holdenvenzon, retired history professor, Cuyamaca College 1978\u20131998; Gross\u00a0<\/span><\/i>mont College 1961\u20131978]<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u2013Robert Holdenvenzon, San Diego<\/em><\/p>\n

US dietary guide ignores meat studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

The “Dietary Guidelines for Americans” released [Jan. 6] by U.S.\u00a0Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services mark the ninth\u00a0time in a row that the meat industry has successfully suppressed\u00a0scientific findings recommending reduced meat consumption. The reduction\u00a0was recommended by the government-appointed Dietary Guidelines Advisory\u00a0Committee in a 571-page report based on review of thousands of studies. Reduced meat consumption was first recommended in 1977 by the U.S.
\nSenate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs in “Dietary Goals\u00a0for the United States”, a precursor to the Dietary Guidelines. The meat\u00a0industry forced the Committee to destroy all copies of the report and to
\nremove the offending recommendation from a new edition. \u00a0That wanton government sell-out to the meat industry has replayed itself\u00a0with every new edition of the Dietary Guidelines since then. “Dietary\u00a0Guidelines for Americans” shape school lunches and other government food\u00a0support programs and underlie public health campaigns to lower rates of\u00a0obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.\u00a0Fortunately, American consumers are not easily duped. Sales of\u00a0plant-based meats, cheeses, milks, and ice creams have skyrocketed, and\u00a0every grocery store provides seemingly countless choices of fruits and\u00a0vegetables.<\/p>\n

\u2013Mark Smith, San Diego<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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