A raucous crowd of more than 200 people filled the 8400 block of Third Avenue on June 24 to make sure local elected officials heard their voices, loud and clear, in strong opposition to an application to open a legally licensed cannabis dispensary there.
A legally licensed dispensary selling medical marijuana is just four blocks from Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church, but the pastor, Father Francis Passenant, isn’t worried about that close proximity. He has other concerns.
When the weather is warm, the odor of marijuana coming from people smoking pot on the sidewalk drifts into Saint Saviour High School in Park Slope through open windows, Principal Carolann Timpone said.
More than a week after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, we are still in shock over the heinous act against innocent lives — 19 elementary school children and two teachers were slaughtered.
Dear Editor: As noted in Bishop DiMarzio’s Put Out in the Deep column (June 16), NYS legislators are making efforts to reduce arrests related to the possession of marijuana. If they succeed marijuana, a psychoactive and addictive drug, will become affordable and easily available. Like you Bishop DiMarzio, I strongly oppose the efforts at the decriminalization of marijuana.
