Pubdate: Mon, 17 Apr 2017
Source: Toronto Star (CN ON)
Copyright: 2017 The Toronto Star
Contact:  http://www.thestar.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/456
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v17/n133/a05.html
Author: Catharina Summers
Page: A14

LEGALIZING MARIJUANA WILL HARM OUR YOUTH

Re: Fat chance pot bill will do any good, DiManno, April 13

Thank you, Rosie DiManno. You raise a serious concern about the impact
the legalization of marijuana will have on our youth.

It is basically legitimizing a drug that is harmful for adolescents at
the same time as telling them that their parents can grow four plants
in your home, can smoke up, etc.

But you can't have any, unless you find another source.

Today's youth have been finding another source for many years and,
considering that our youth are among the highest users in the world,
they have been very successful at it.

Why would legalizing marijuana for adults make it less available for
our youth?

Why does the government say once they legalize cannabis, it will start
a campaign warning our youth of its harmful affects on their maturing
brains? Why is it not doing this now?

As Rosie so astutely reminded us, marijuana has the effect of
manipulating the mind into thinking marijuana is a "mind-expanding
substance," yet, in reality, it is "profoundly dulling and
stupefying."

Catharina Summers,

Kingston
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