PANDORA'S BOX

To the editor:

To legalize marijuana to tax it is disturbing. This is a drug and
should be treated as such. Marijuana inhibits a person's actions,
debilitating them from doing even basic things.

Society has enough to deal with just on alcohol and cigarettes: Both
break down and destroy the human body. Medical expenses and lost work
time passed on to the people that can bear the burden by those who
partake in the Grim Reaper's menu. Now they want to dig in Pandora's
box and pull out another entree.

People say they have the right to smoke marijuana. I say no, and
that's my right when it factors into my life as an expense that I'm
not willing to bear.

Outside interest groups slinging around big bucks painting this big
beautiful picture of revenue and big money to be made. You can't put a
value on what this poison will destroy.

I am a man of God and will not turn away and let marijuana become
legal without a fight. I'm exposed to enough sin in this world and
don't want to see more.

A young man said to me: Tax it, it's a moneymaker. A thought went
through my mind as I looked at his young daughter. The vision of a
father weeping over his daughter's mangled body for she had been hit
by an intoxicated driver who was under the influence of marijuana,
legal marijuana just purchased over the counter just like a 12-pack of
beer.

I enjoy the freedoms that this great nation offers but not something
like this marijuana issue, which is continually and repetitiously
brought up on the ballot and made to sound like a good thing when
really it is a venomous snake ready to sink its lethal poison into
society.

With this issue it is time for the powers that be to rise up and to
protect the unwary and innocents from harm. Our values are at risk of
being bought and the very moral fiber of our society is at risk.

Keep marijuana illegal--this time for good!

David Anton Pieczynski,

North Pole