MARIJUANA CAN CAUSE PERMANENT DAMAGE

BY PROMOTING its decriminalization or outright legalization, pro-pot
activists are basically legitimizing marijuana's consumption and implying
that it's basically harmless. As a former pot consumer myself, I - along
with most of my former pot-consumption peers who I've bumped into these
last half-dozen years - can attest to the permanent damage that marijuana
can cause to a person's body and mind. If pro-pot people propose legalizing
marijuana for practical reasons - for instance, less pressure on
already-overburdened law-enforcement and justice systems - that's a clear
and perhaps practical motive. But there's simply way too much of the
media-propagated garbage out there telling our impressionable youth that
pot is harmless.

Frank G. Sterle, Jr.

(An interesting perspective.)