Editor, the Tribune: As a Boone County resident who has never smoked marijuana, I agree with Sen. Chuck Gross of St. Charles. His proposed bill would help Columbia residents realize the importance of sending the right message to public schoolchildren: "You don't know any better!"

While medical marijuana prescriptions are intended for adults and municipal possession laws apply to adults and not minors, the progressively minded Gross feels that's too risky. Student athletes must be stupid and impressionable. They get the wrong message about "legalized pot." Rumors abound, and what else is there to do for fun in Columbia? The ensuing mass of tourney-going pot smokers will send this town into a chaotic mass of children stricken with "Reefer Madness" not seen since the black days of the 1950s when the whole populace of children was driven insane smoking the wacky weed.

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