THINK ABOUT THIS BEFORE LEGALIZING POT

Before approving any federal legalization of marijuana, it might be
well to consider such questions as the following:

Companies, how would you like to be compelled to employ drug users
whose use of marijuana makes them less productive and more often sick?

Workers, how would you like to be compelled to work with drug users
whose marijuana use makes them open to various mental disorders?

Landlords, how would you like to be compelled to rent to mentally
ill and sometimes violent marijuana users, who often steal to pay
for their drugs?

Renters, how would you like to be compelled to
have marijuana-smoking neighbors, exposing your children to them
and their intoxicating smoke?

Those who wouldn't like to do this might consider that there can be
no assurance that following any federal pot legalization, the quite
justified discrimination against marijuana users in these situations
would be outlawed. Compelled to employ unproductive
workers, quality and profits would be seriously reduced,
forcing many employers to curtail or end their operations, throwing
even productive workers out of work.

The only way to be certain that such an unfair ban of needed
discrimination never occurs is to defeat any federal legalization of
marijuana (now being sponsored). State laws for medical or any other
uses of marijuana are steps to federal legalization and, therefore,
threats of such a possible development.

Russell Yohn

Elgin