NOT CONVINCED ABOUT LEGALIZATION

I really do appreciate so many people taking time to read my thoughts and
write their own on the issue of the legalization of methamphetamines. I am
very open-minded and do agree there are ways our society would benefit
greatly from the legalization of any drug. More money for our governments,
less deaths, more prison cell space for murderers and rapists.

Yet the legalization of meth would lead to more addicts.

One of the letters said that John F. Kennedy used methamphetamines, case in
point. I don't really feel safe thinking that our president would be using
a drug that alters his mind to only focus on pumping more of the drug into
his body and not focusing on the world issues that he's supposed to. With
it being legal, he couldn't get in any legal trouble.

I would feel violated living in a society where a large percentage of our
people were hallucinating from their body's weak structure and their severe
case of insomnia. Sure at first, meth gives people the rush to accomplish
tasks they need to when they are tired. Yet what happens when it is out of
their systems? They don't stop. They continue using this horrible,
addictive drug, and it slowly takes over their lives.

Heather Rector

Muskogee