With the plague of opiate overdoses, some doctors are prescribing pot to get people off opioids. There are many positive medical applications which help many people with everything from mental illness, terminal conditions, to severe physical disabilities. Fact is we have never had legal recreational pot, so how can you say it's going to destroy communities? I would like to point out how legalizing it has worked for Colorado and I think the red light district in Amsterdam would also beg to differ. [continues 73 words]
The Philadelphia Inquirer's recent editorial on marijuana legalization, reprinted in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, could be said to have been overly simplistic. Most people may also be blissfully unaware of the nature of some of the many unintended consequences of legalizing medical or recreational marijuana use as has been proposed. Marijuana's principal psychoactive constituent is an already legal FDA-approved oral Schedule III drug available by prescription from any pharmacy within the United States, including in Arkansas. What else may people not know? Why would any state have citizens vote in a virtual information vacuum on matters already resolved by other means? Aristotle said nature abhors a vacuum. Apparently some with a political agenda do not. Harrison [end]
