Letter: Thoughts on issues of pot and graffiti (Oct. 23)
I’m reading the Tribune of Oct. 8 (front page) and it’s the same two subjects.
First one is on how the push for legal pot goes on. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Legalize pot and tax it and at least this way the state can get money from it, and also it leaves out the drug lords and begins to put them out of the equation.
The other is the graffiti situation; don’t play dumb you who are responsible at the top. Put up a few of those walls fit for graffiti throughout the town and let them go at it.
Also, in new construction, build more wrought-iron fences, also more wire fences, and on existing fences of wood or block, plant bushes and shrubs and other greenery and that will not allow graffiti, as no one wants to do it behind the bushes.
Joe L. Urena,
Madera
Graffiti and tags are not the same.
Graffiti has some real art form to it.
Tags are like dogs peeing on a tree.
Tag the taggers. Photograph them and bill their parents/ and or make them serve time picking up trash/ cleaning up their tags. Also have them sentenced to a street corner with a sign I am a tagger and I got caught for several days.
Put the photos of taggers in the newspaper and let the public be on the watch for these vandals.
It is time to ban together and say enough is enough.