My Anti-Illicit-Drugs Letter Today to Utah State House of Representatives Majority Leader Mike Schultz

 I am very pleased to offer this very tentative brainstorming letter for Utah State Majority Leader Mike Schultz:

----- Forwarded Message -----

From: "John McMillan" <mcmillanj@att.net>

To: "Mike Schultz" <mikeschultz@le.utah.gov>, "Mike Weichers" <mweichers@ch.utah.gov>, "Gay Lynn Bennion" <glbennion@le.utah.gov>, "mballard@le.utah.gov" <mballard@le.utah.gov>, "todd.mitchell" <todd.mitchell@slcgov.com>, "Drew Hadley" <drew.hadley@slcgov.com>, "scott.stuck" <scott.stuck@slcgov.com>, "Mayor Wilson" <mayor@slco.org>, "Angela Romero" <angelaromero@le.utah.gov>, "Cameron Roden" <croden@utah.gov>, "marie.stewart" <marie.stewart@slcgov.com>, "chad.atkinson" <chad.atkinson@slcgov.com>, "leo.abila" <leo.abila@slcgov.com>

Sent: Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 12:11 AM

Subject: 12-14-23 Additional Concerns Of Mine About Utah

December 14, 2023

Dear Utah State Legislature House Majority Leader Mike Schultz,

Thank you again for kindly inviting me on December 6, 2023, to offer you additional concerns of mine that might be helpful to yourself as you preside over delineation of  a Legislative Agenda for Utah in 2024.

Among my current concerns that I want to share with you in this hastily-written letter are:

---A high percentage of the honorable and law-abiding vigilant adult residents of Utah are hindered by their inability to identify the scent or visual image of an illicit drug when they attempt to make  crime tip phone  calls to their  local law enforcement agency.

I myself, for instance, do not know the scent or odor or  appearance of methamphetamine, fentanyl, LSD, heroin, or any type of  cocaine that is not "crack cocaine".

 I  know what crack cocaine smells like only because another white male tenant at the Kensington Motor Lodge,  a multi-story hotel where I resided as a white male rent-paying tenant living alone in an always-locked hotel room in East Austin (TX) while I was seeking employment at a newspaper in Texas, told me one day in the early 1990s when I happened to be outdoors in a ground-level parking lot near the far western side of that hotel, that "The odors you (John McMillan) are smelling right now are coming from inside the second-floor units of black  tenants on this far west side of the complex. They are consuming crack cocaine from inside their hotel rooms and the odor is so strong that you and I can both  smell that stench down here in the parking lot area."

In my entire life, I myself have never once consumed crack cocaine or any other type of cocaine. I am very repulsed by the scent of crack cocaine, and I  despise any and all forms of cocaine.

If the Utah Legislature could provide funding for  "'Utah Sniff and See' Educational Workshops" to be sponsored by local  law enforcement agencies, this would enable private citizens such as myself to be more precise and more confident when we call a crime-tip phone number to report evidence of illicit- drug activities we had directly observed in downtown Salt Lake City, for instance.

----It is possible that some or many of the local law-enforcement agencies here in Utah either do not "employ" any drug-sniffing dog of their own or do not train their drug-sniffing police dog to identify each and every one of the illicit drugs currently being consumed or sold by criminal persons in their Utahn city or town or county. 

There may be a need for a "Utah Canine Police Services Expansion Act" that might enable police departments and sheriff's offices throughout Utah, including in American Indian("Native American")-governed counties or areas  of Utah,  to significantly  boost the size and capabilities of their drug-sniffing police canine corps and services. This can help significantly boost  investigation and criminal-law prosecution of illicit-drug activities throughout our entire "Beehive State".

---I am very worried that enforcement of the law against many or all of the "hard" drugs or "most villainous and deadly" drugs of Utah may not be funded adequately at present.

Should there be "Utah Hard Drugs Prevention Act" that significantly expands all of the Hard Drugs Investigations efforts here in Utah?

---I am worried that the online "Utah Drug Monitoring Initiative Annual Report" may have been either discontinued in the period after October 2021 or may not be adequately funded or publicized at present. I was disappointed tonight during a Google search I did that the report date that appeared on my computer screen was "October 2021"----more than two years ago.

-----The apparent dramatic increase ever since 2000 in the number and percentage of  the residents of Utah who were born in another U.S. state or a foreign nation, and I myself do not have current  access to

 those statistics, suggests an urgent need for investigations by the Utah DPS to obtain an estimate on the current percentage of those post-1990s "newcomers to Utah"  who are, in fact, opiod addicts, illicit-drug addicts, so-called "medical" marijuana addicts, marijuana addicts, alcoholics, tobacco addicts, vaping addicts, drug dealers, or convicted felons who committed a felony violent crime.

----I sense that many of the "Native Americans" or American Indians of Utah may be addicted to at least one illicit drug---possibly peyote?--- at a higher rate than the overall population of all adult Utahns. A possible Utah House of Representatives  special Hearing on the "Utah Native American Drug Crisis" might help to promote expansion of crime investigations and criminal prosecutions to include American Indian crime suspects.

---I am personally alarmed by the possibility that the so-called "medical marijuana industry" in Utah has inflicted a possible  increase in the number and percentage  of Utahns previously diagnosed with a terminal illness other than lung cancer who are now also diagnosed as having contracted lung cancer in Utah from smoking marijuana that has been "endorsed" or "prescribed" for them by the Utah State  Legislature.

The internationally renowned Cleveland Clinic medical clinic in Ohio has courageously opposed legalization of marijuana consumption for so-called "medical" purposes. I am very hopeful that the Utah House of Representatives in 2024 will be willing to invite a first-rate medical physician from the Cleveland Clinic to testify before a Utah House committee or subcommittee  about why that physician believes that legalization of marijuana for "medicinal purposes" is and will continue to  be disastrous for Utah and Utahns.

----I am very worried that ambitious entrepreneurial Utahns in their teens and twenties are being told by their peers that "if you pursue a career in medical marijuana or production and distribution, you can get rich fast and join a Millionaires Club here in Utah."

I am one Utahn who is morally repulsed by this "new career opportunity" for younger men in our state who want to get rich and don't care whether some of the "terminally ill" patients they sell "medical" marijuana to are merely drug addicts who faked symptoms with a medical doctor in Utah and who have submitted an allegedly  fraudulent claim to the State of Utah about their having a terminal illness.

I hope very much that the Utah House under your fine leadership will consider imposing tougher penalties in the state penal code for Utahn residents and visitors to Utah or physicians in Utah  who submit a deliberately fraudulent application  for enrollment in the "medical marijuana" program of the  Utah Cannibis state agency.

--I am very  worried that former or current illicit drug dealers or illicit drug addicts will attempt to infiltrate the so-called Medical Marijuana program here in Utah. 

That organized crime takeover of the statewide  Cannabis program will trigger a massive moral decline here in Utah.

I hope the Utah House of Representatives will  be willing to provide generous funding to the Utah Department of Public Safety that will enable DPS  Investigators or auditors employed by the DPS to obtain or request and pay for frequent "Integrity Audits"  of the current State-approved "legal" Marijuana program here in Utah.

Any evidence that any of the staff members or administrators of that new "Cannabis" program have Mafia ties or other other organized-crime ties could tarnish and ruin our state's traditionally wholesome reputation.

Thank you again, Utah House Majority Leader Schultz, for your kind written request that I write to you about concerns of mine here in Utah. I hope this letter tonight is helpful to you.

Best Wishes,

former Texas DPS full-time staff member John Kevin McMillan, 535 South 200 East, Apt. 912, Ninth Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84111.

Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.

Sent from AT&T Yahoo Mail on Android