QUESTIONS MESSAGE

To the Editor, It's a little insulting to be reading propaganda
prepared by tax exempt so-called "anti-drug" organizations, disguised
as a letter to the editor.

Any effects that marijuana has on the developmental abilities and/or
the cognitive functions are temporary based on the evidence presented
through scientific research.

Any educator out there will tell you that there is a specific
"learning curve" in any given population of students. Some students
will be at the top of the curve with all A's, and some will be at the
other end, possibly, with something lower than a D. However, most will
be somewhere in between, and none of that has anything to do with
marijuana use whatsoever.

Consider the implications.

If you say that "students that get D's are more likely to use
marijuana", what, are you saying to those "D" students on the
learning curve who would normally get D's? - That they should be using
marijuana? Or that they eventually will? - And what does that say to
the 'A' students who used marijuana and still got A's?

Doesn't sound like a good message to me.

Kids should not use marijuana, so why is it available anywhere anytime
to anyone? Our children have better access to marijuana than alcohol
or tobacco, why?

Marijuana should be taken off the streets and put behind the counter
where it belongs.

Jim White

Oregon