LEGALIZE MARIJUANA

I am writing in response to the recent talk of legalizing marijuana. Many
people are throwing around the idea of legalizing marijuana, not just for
medical use but for leisure use as well.

Marijuana has many potential beneficial uses, such as as a pain reliever
and appetite stimulant for cancer patients. It can also be used to treat
glaucoma, AIDS, migraines and spinal-cord trauma. But quite possible my
biggest argument for marijuana is how much safer it is than alcohol.

Alcohol in general makes many people violent and sexual, or causes them to
completely lose self-control. Marijuana, on the other hand, makes people
mellow and lazy. No one high on marijuana is going to want to do anything
but eat a snack.

Alcohol has really no benefits. No disease can be helped by alcohol; most
people would be better off without it. The only physical danger of
marijuana is lung damage from smoking it and some memory loss, which
alcohol also inflicts. The lung damage can be avoided by eating marijuana,
rather than smoking it (this also supposedly gives a higher high).

Legalizing marijuana makes sense.

SHAWN ROY

Providence