REJECT PROPAGANDA

I enjoyed Brenda Baird's balanced and well-researched piece "Pot Shots"
[Oct. 18, City Weekly]. Too often, marijuana is portrayed by the media as
harmful. More and more Americans are rejecting this propaganda and
accepting that it is simply a recreational drug not unlike other legal
highs such as alcohol, nicotine and caffeine. The fact that we waste our
taxpayer dollars and our police officers' time arresting and jailing those
who smoke a joint is pure folly. With the recent focus on national
security, I think we can all agree: Let's send our police officers after
terrorists, not our neighbors who choose to smoke a joint in the privacy of
their own homes.

- -Adam Wiggins, Pasadena, Calif.