SGA SHOULD THAT MARIJUANA LEGISLATION IS PASSED

As an active and devoted student of Virginia Tech, I am much appalled
by the comments of the author of "Virginia Tech has a reputation to
uphold" (CT. Feb. 7). Perhaps the only accurate and educated ideas he
presents are the structures of Tech's grand reputation. It seems quite
obvious that the author was unable to understand, or incompetent to
perform any research, so as to gather an appropriate idea in respect
to what Student for Sensible Drug Policy stands for and strives to
attain. It is logical to have a standard drug policy regarding the
illegal use of marijuana and alcohol, considering circumstances where,
in fact, they are both illegal. As a learned student body, we need to
disregard the issue of political conservatives criminalizing marijuana
and focus on the topic at hand. Simple enough, broken laws are broken
laws. The Tech chapter of SSDP is not passing legislation to make
marijuana legal. The most disturbing and embarrassing part of that
commentary is the futile story about his freshman year on campus.

Certainly everyone understands that some people have problems with
marijuana, just like people have addictions to LSD, cocaine, and, yes,
alcohol. What is the point to that story? Even more people have
roommates their freshman year that fail out of school and/or get jobs
to support their poor alcohol habits. Is this not proof that marijuana
and alcohol policy on campus should be at least equivalent? Thank you
for wasting our time, paper, and patience. I hope that the Student
Government Association will see through this legislation put forth by
SSDP, and bring reason to policy so the Tech community does not have
to look back in ten years and see further injustice done by the likes
of ignorant people.

Jeremy A. Kniseley, SSDP

Junior, Classical Studies