LEGAL DRUGS KILL, ILLEGAL MARIJUANA DOES NOT

Thanks to Jerome Kellner (Letters, Feb. 25) we know that if you smoke
marijuana you will never amount to anything. Oh, that's right, our
president smoked marijuana.

Thanks to Kellner we know that marijuana is bad for you. Oh, that's
right, our own assistant surgeon general Walter Treadway and the AMA
said it wasn't back in the 1930s!

Our government conspired with big business through the use of yellow
journalism and fear to make Americans think that all marijuana plants,
including hemp, was bad. I know they wouldn't lie to us, right? Where
are those weapons of mass destruction anyway?

In the time it took Kellner to write his anti-marijuana tirade,
hundreds of people died from the effects of the legal drugs nicotine
and alcohol and no one died from smoking marijuana. How bad can it
really be?

Casey A. Logsdon

Kihei