MARIJUANA'S SAFETY TEMPERED WITH MATURITY

With all fairness, marijuana is not as bad
as most think. Drinking alcohol is just as bad as smoking weed. You
get "drunk" from drinking alcohol and "high" from smoking pot. If
alcohol is a legal substance, marijuana should be. The key to both
alcohol and marijuana is maturity. Knowing when to do it and when not
to do it, when to stop and when to begin. We have alcoholics who drink
alcohol and "pot heads" who smoke weed daily; it is the same scenario
with a different product. Young people do not have the thought process
on how to handle things that alter judgment. Why should one be
acceptable in society and not the other? Alcohol was made illegal in
the past, only to have created organized crime. If you could look at
the number of adults who are successful now, but have smoked marijuana
sometime in the past, you would be very surprised.

Leesa Johnston, North Richland Hills