"REEFER MADNESS" IS NOT WARRANTED AT ALL

Hopefully the North Kitsap School District (Parents, schools take aim
at drugs and alcohol, May 5) will avoid the most common reefer madness
lies and mistakes which contribute to contempt for drug education and
escalated hard drug addiction rates. Cannabis (marijuana) doesn't
cause cancer since there are no dead bodies to show for it in over
5,000 years of documented use, while tobacco kills over 1,000 North
Americans daily. Cannabis is less intoxicating than alcohol, less
addictive than coffee and should be re-legalized. It's commendable
helping youth resist alcohol, sex, drugs, coffee, driving and cannabis
till they are older and responsible but caging responsible adults for
using cannabis is the wrong way to do it.

Truthfully,

Stan White,

Dillon, Colo.