HIGH ON BOULDER WEEKLY (2 OF 4)

I found your article "Everybody's High" to be very interesting, thought
provoking, and extremely off base. It is true there are chemical reactions
that appear to be similar and are indicators of pleasure, happiness or
euphoria. However, it is not accurate to put these other pleasurable
experiences in the same category as an illegal, devastating, gateway and
destructive drug. Sex and chocolate occur on the same planet as marijuana,
so of course there are going to be similar chemical reactions in our
brains, and they can be addictive too, but in different ways and with
different consequences. To even categorize these as the same somehow with
regard to "highness" and to claim that science tells us this is just really
silly.

The article also mentioned that across the world about 10 percent of the
population indulge in the dangerous practice of living in slavery to
marijuana. Are there any studies that indicate what the lives of these
people are like with respect to: career satisfaction, financial status,
emotional and social satisfaction in relationships (all of these
long-term), and what about a correlation with other serious addictions? By
the way, Jesus Christ came to Earth and lived a perfect life to save us
from our flesh and our sins, so that we may inherit eternal life, if we
believe in him. He came to bring us true restoration with our heavenly
father, not to distribute cannabis oil.

Ken Allen

Longmont