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Abuse-prone Americans don't need legal marijuana
Gregg Weedon | fredericksburg.com | 5/15/2006

This is in response to Kirk Muse's letter ["Czech this out: Marijuana use does not ruin a society," May 8].

Do we not have enough people being injured and killed due to alcohol-related accidents? I believe so, but I don't think Mr. Muse does.

He and others who support marijuana legalization seem to think we need to add another mind-altering substance that would inevitably lead to even more problems on our roads and more substance abuse.

We as a society tend to abuse a lot. We have child abuse, substance abuse, food abuse, and we're currently reeling from our abuse of natural resources.

Why would we exert so much control with marijuana? I fail to see that we would. It would be just another crutch for people to use in order to escape responsibility and fail the people who depend on them.

And it's pointless to compare the U.S. to the Czech Republic. They are two totally different cultures developed over time under very different conditions.

It's apples versus oranges. If you edit enough information, you can always whittle it down to what you want to read or hear. But that doesn't tell the whole story.

If Mr. Muse's argument is that marijuana is not such a big deal, then why are some people so hell-bent on having it legalized?

Gregg Weedon

Spotsylvania

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dedbr

while I go puke.....


OK, I'm back. Now....


Sure we do. But what does that have to do with herb. It's been proven that people on herb are overall better drivers because their more careful, not less.

Same old song, different words...


Maybe to keep our society from wasting so much money on prohibition? Maybe to save any more of us from going to jail? Maybe to help the thousands of patients that could live a better quality of life because of easy access?

Or maybe, just maybe, it's the right thing to do? Would that be a good reason?

Ya know, I realize that there are people out there like this, but it still gives me the shivers when I read this because it reminds me all over again how far we have to go.....


Somewhere in Ded Land......

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GPSmoke

How about the alcohol becomes illegal and the marijuana then is not? Although we all enjoy a drink, I would completed agree with that. Fair trade.

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Buzzby

Does this post have anything to do with the thread it's in?

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TheNewGuy

So lets solve those problems the DEA way and ban children, food, and gasoline.

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reggie_the_dog

I agree " Abuse-prone Americans don't need legal marijuana".

We don't "NEED" legal marijuana, because their is enough illegal marijuana to go around. But it would be nice to have LEGAL marijuana so we wouldn't have to worry about getting busted with the ILLEGAL kind we have now.

Tolerance4all

Just in case. Click on the Frederickburg.com link you will find in the original post. This will take you to Gregg Weedons letter. Cilick on the sheet of paper icon and presto. Look for a thread with the title that matchs the title of Weedons letter.