Illegal drugs have been around for so long that people have been complacent about and almost blind to their detrimental effects. While there are various reasons why our education system is detriorating drug use is at the top of the heap. Worse yet we get this multiplier effect as each succeeding generation moves up the adult ladder. To suggest that marijuana is harmless is disingenious when you consider every drug has side effects and can create major problems including aspirn

States like California that made headway into marijuana medical clinic found major abuses and learned they were nothing more then dope dens.

While I have no experience with drugs I have served on board of companies whose businss is to rehabilitate young people. What I have seen is ugly ugly ugly.

I do agree that some folks are being incarcerated unnecessarily or too long and I do agree that our leaders have not been committed or serious enough to implement an effective program. However no one will ever convince me that legalization is the solution