All marijuana use - medical and recreational - should be legalized. Politicians do a lot of goofy things but perhaps none goofier than encouraging me to have two double martinis and a pint of Chianti followed by after-dinner cigarettes or cigars. This rather than a couple of joints made from a weed that I can grow in my backyard. Hey, it just came to me - alcohol and tobacco are taxable; pot isn't. Those sly devils! William Bost Fort Myers [end]