Re: Supervisors direct staff to develop marijuana dispensary ban ordinance [Village News, 2/16/2017]

Your article in the Feb 16 addition on marijuana legalization was excellent. A large majority of the California voters approved the legalization of recreational marijuana use and cultivation with Prop 64.

It appears that many of our local elected officials think it is their duty to protect us from our own wishes by continuing the prohibition.

I am particularly appalled by the actions of the County Supervisors who had a good proposal from their staff on how to handle the set up and structure of the commercialization of recreational marijuana and then voted to direct there staff to create a new...