DRUG AWARENESS IS IMPORTANT

I am writing you in response to your article "The Never -Ending
Battle," published in this week's paper.

I think awareness of drug addiction in our local and global community
is important. Drugs like crack, cocaine, ecstasy, alcohol and
narcotic pain relievers are dangerous to a person in many ways.
However, so many articles I read about the dangers of drugs include
marijuana on the list as deadly and destructive. And please don't
give me that gateway crap; Nancy Reagan is no longer the First Lady
and I hardly consider her an expert on the 'ol peace pipe.

I have never heard of someone pawning their belongings to puff on a
joint or overdosing on bong water or popping a cap in someone to get
their bag. Let's try to leave ganja off the list of dangerous drugs.
Parents should be more worried about their Jack Daniels being locked up.

Courtney Hunter

Greensboro