Never Legalize Pot
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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This is one of two letters since the word count maximum is 500 words. A recent letter written in by a seasoned man in the law field supported the legalization of marijuana. Are you kidding me? The only failure is the people who use the drugs by choice not the system of drug protection. You can’t control choice. Let’s just encourage more people to get under the influence of another type of mind and body altering drug in addition to alcohol so they can create more life threatening crimes. These crimes would be increased domestic fights, theft, and not to mention more deaths by drivers under the influence of marijuana to name a few. Why does the government even allow any person to have anything that changes their ability to make logical decisions or negatively affects our body? Do we value human life so little that we wouldn’t stop to create a better end result? It is stupid enough that we even have establishments where people go and get incredibly intoxicated and then drive home and yeah they are called bars. Better yet maybe people will be on the road both intoxicated and also under the influence of marijuana. This would be the same time you are out grocery shopping on a Friday night, your wife or husband is getting off of work, your children are on a bus, or simple unsuspecting pedestrians see their last sunrise that day.
Who cares about Holland pot houses? “Well they do it,” is a weak argument. Simply following the tide is a measure of non-independent thinking and just being like everyone else. I didn’t see any reports about the before and after of legalizing marijuana in any of the text and what the positive or negative effects were on the criminal activity. Give someone an addiction and they will give you everything they have to feed it. Taking away marijuana from the illegal market and cartels would only further create a demand for a new drug for the cartels to manufacture. You are blind if you think they will go out of business that easy. You haven’t thought it through. Take a new legalization when the economy stinks like now. Add the factor of wanting or in cases feeling like a person needs pot. You think they won’t do anything to get it? Maybe break into a wealthy person’s house like someone who makes good money. A good heist might be someone who practices law or has a high paying job. The addicted thinks “Hey, after all he’s got money.” House invasions are now rising in order to financially survive and in many cases just to wrongfully gain, but picture more families at risk and your children and wife in your home as these addicts need their fix. Maybe you think you are tough and you couldn’t become the addict, but the truth is you really don’t know until faced with it. Stay tuned for part two of this response.
Matthew McHenry
Warsaw, via email[[In-content Ad]]
This is one of two letters since the word count maximum is 500 words. A recent letter written in by a seasoned man in the law field supported the legalization of marijuana. Are you kidding me? The only failure is the people who use the drugs by choice not the system of drug protection. You can’t control choice. Let’s just encourage more people to get under the influence of another type of mind and body altering drug in addition to alcohol so they can create more life threatening crimes. These crimes would be increased domestic fights, theft, and not to mention more deaths by drivers under the influence of marijuana to name a few. Why does the government even allow any person to have anything that changes their ability to make logical decisions or negatively affects our body? Do we value human life so little that we wouldn’t stop to create a better end result? It is stupid enough that we even have establishments where people go and get incredibly intoxicated and then drive home and yeah they are called bars. Better yet maybe people will be on the road both intoxicated and also under the influence of marijuana. This would be the same time you are out grocery shopping on a Friday night, your wife or husband is getting off of work, your children are on a bus, or simple unsuspecting pedestrians see their last sunrise that day.
Who cares about Holland pot houses? “Well they do it,” is a weak argument. Simply following the tide is a measure of non-independent thinking and just being like everyone else. I didn’t see any reports about the before and after of legalizing marijuana in any of the text and what the positive or negative effects were on the criminal activity. Give someone an addiction and they will give you everything they have to feed it. Taking away marijuana from the illegal market and cartels would only further create a demand for a new drug for the cartels to manufacture. You are blind if you think they will go out of business that easy. You haven’t thought it through. Take a new legalization when the economy stinks like now. Add the factor of wanting or in cases feeling like a person needs pot. You think they won’t do anything to get it? Maybe break into a wealthy person’s house like someone who makes good money. A good heist might be someone who practices law or has a high paying job. The addicted thinks “Hey, after all he’s got money.” House invasions are now rising in order to financially survive and in many cases just to wrongfully gain, but picture more families at risk and your children and wife in your home as these addicts need their fix. Maybe you think you are tough and you couldn’t become the addict, but the truth is you really don’t know until faced with it. Stay tuned for part two of this response.
Matthew McHenry
Warsaw, via email[[In-content Ad]]
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