Frankly, I do not see how limiting medical marijuana is going to help anything. It is not the only drug that messes with a person's mind and puts them in a state that is not suitable for driving.

Many heavy painkillers have the same types of effects, putting a person into a state where driving would not be safe. If a limit is placed on medical marijuana, limits are going to start on all other sorts of drugs.

And why do lawmakers feel placing a limit is going to stop anything? If a person takes medical marijuana how are they going to know fully what they are doing? Most likely, they will not be thinking straight and won't give a second thought about driving. They'll look in their fridge see the milk is gone and think, "I need milk!" The next thing you know they are pulled over for taking their meds. Limiting medical marijuana isn't going to change anything.

It's just going to make trips to the grocery store that much more interesting.

Justin Daniel Packard

Colorado Springs

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Kids need drugs.

That is what one woman believes.

And I agree.

Calm down. Hang up the phone. Put down the pen. Turn off the computer. Before you call, write or e-mail your outrage, hear us out.

She means the constructive kind of drugs. Read on.

I noticed her comment as I glanced at Page 1 of the Clovis News Journal. Her statement got my attention.

I wish I had said it. I should have thought of it because my parents had the same child-rearing philosophy.

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