LEGAL MARIJUANA A DOUBLE EDGE

I was very happy to read the article on Sunday, July 3 about Jim
Pillsbury no longer pushing for title of "famous pothead." I, too, am
in favor of decriminalization of most drug laws with an increase in
seeing moneys spent on education. But the one thing that neither side
ever seems to talk about is that marijuana has a very subtle and
insidious side-effect: It causes a loss of ambition and an inability
to achieve goals.

Not everyone will experience the same effect, and most people who do
experience it will not be aware that it is happening. In fact, it
can take years for people to realize what it does, if they ever do
realize it. In part, this is because the active ingredient in
marijuana is a fat soluble drug, which in this case means that it
takes a full two weeks for the body to flush it out. If you get high
more than once every two weeks, then you're never truly sober. It's a
fact that since time immemorial, mankind has always sought ways to
get high, and there's nothing we can do to stop that except for
education. If you're going to get high, then at least make an
informed decision, and please don't think that marijuana is
completely harmless.