To the Editor: We're champions again in Massachusetts! First it was football, then it was baseball and now the people of the commonwealth are champions of another sport, if you will. We are No. 1 in the use of marijuana! Congratulations! We beat every state in the nation! A whopping 12 percent of Massachusetts residents have taken part in smoking the funny butts in the past month. We have put every steroid scandal in sports history to shame. We might as well make the pot plant our state plant. We could put it on vanity plates on cars. I'm surprised that Twinkies haven't become our official state food by now. In all seriousness, I didn't realize that I had a 12 percent chance of driving next to an operator of a motor vehicle who was under the influence of the cannabis plant. Then again, that would explain some of their driving techniques. [continues 232 words]
It has become quite clear over the course of the past decade that the abuse of drugs is a clear and present danger to the safety of society in this United States. We as a nation have an obligation to attack the sources of the drugs on all fronts, from increasing jail time for those who attack the innocent by procuring these drugs to an all-out law enforcement assault on the trafficking of this scourge that has afflicted so many people and their loved ones. [continues 208 words]
