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Shanna Brinton: If we don’t pass T, we’ll be paying for ‘weed’

Taxes are too high. We shouldn’t have to pay a marijuana tax unless we use marijuana. I don’t use it, but I will still have to pay for the cops who enforce the law if we don’t pass Measure T. Let the users pay, not the rest of us. Yes on T.

Shanna Brinton, Modesto

This story was originally published November 2, 2017 at 12:18 PM with the headline "Shanna Brinton: If we don’t pass T, we’ll be paying for ‘weed’."

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