You can be opposed to the consumption of marijuana. Fine. But your own moral code aside, you must consider facts and hard evidence. The purposes of Jake DaSilva's recent column were very clear: to claim that pot is bad and should never be smoked by anyone. However, there was no real substance behind his anecdotal account of why drugs, moreover marijuana, are bad.

His basic assertion is that marijuana is bad and wreaks havoc in the lives of the users. He laments on the blight of sketchy drug dealers peddling their goods on impressionable young children and adults who consume marijuana.

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