Letters: Marijuana in Vegas, Yosemite trademarks, pet immigration lines, passport tips

Regarding “Latest Joint on the Strip,” by Jay Jones, March 13: The first legal medical marijuana dispensary is now open on the famed Vegas Strip. Those with medical marijuana cards can legally purchase and consume marijuana in Nevada but cannot transport the item across any state lines.

In other words, if it’s bought in Vegas, it stays in Vegas (or other areas in Nevada).

And because the store is a legal dispensary, it sells other products to treat various medical conditions such as pain, nausea and sleep deprivation. In Vegas, pain could stem from losing too much at the tables, nausea from downing too many margaritas and sleep deprivation due to gambling 48 hours straight without taking a nap.

In November, residents will vote on whether to legalize recreational use of grass, which would probably make any dispensary, this letter and the original article moot.

Bill Spitalnick

Newport Beach

In total denial

No. No. No. No. No.... I refuse to accept Christopher Reynolds’ article “Yosemite Changes” [“Need to Know,” March 6 ] as true.

Nobody can trademark names associated with a national park. There’s been some kind of mistake. I will never call the Ahwahnee Hotel anything but that, nor Wawona Hotel anything but that, nor Curry Village anything but that.

Reynolds almost ruined my Sunday morning with his silly article. How can anything related to a national park be trademarked?

Vivia Rutland

Ojai

Pet lines? Really?

I was all for the family line until I read the letter in the March 27 Travel section about having a pet line. This is not about dislike or hatred of animals, but shouldn’t you keep your pets at home? Why do so many of you travel with your pets? And please don’t tell me you want your pets to see the Eiffel Tower or some other historical site.

Also with tongue in cheek,

Charles P. Martin

Los Angeles

Passport tips

Great write-up on passports [“Renew That Passport Now to Beat ’17 Crush,” by Catharine Hamm, On the Spot, March 20].

If you have a name change (for example, you got married) and need to update your passport, you must go into a Global Entry enrollment center and pay $25 for a new Global Entry Card. There are more than 85 enrollment/interview locations where you can do this.

We take our passport wherever we go — saves the headache of deciding whether we should or not.

And we photograph our passport page and save it to our phone and email it to ourselves just in case.

We do travel into Mexico weekly and return by driving across the border in SENTRI (Secure Electronic Network for Travelers Rapid Inspection) lanes with our Global Entry Card and are never asked for our passport. Interesting. But we always have it on us.

Thanks for a good write-up on a confusing topic.

Keith Shadle

San Diego