I made a prediction the other day that within four years
Maryland would legalize marijuana.......boy, was I wrong with my end
date. It appears that approval is on the fast track with the Senate
President, a tobacco farmer and trial lawyer, being in favor of legalization
and probably more importantly, taxation. Public opinion has the
majority in favor of legalization; at least that's what the media is deducing
from the polls. I sure as heck don't know many people who are in
favor of legalization, but I guess they are out there.
What amazes me is that the state is committed to improving
the health status of its residents and yet they are going to approve the use of
marijuana, a drug that is known to be addictive, harmful, cancer causing
through prolonged use, and a gateway to the introduction of other extremely
harmful drugs such as cocaine, heroin and other hard drugs. All in
the name of tax dollars. One of the candidates for Maryland Governor
wants to legalize marijuana to fund full-day kindergarten education across
Maryland. Somehow, isn't like legalizing prostitution to fund
research on sexually transmitted diseases.
The effects of marijuana on one's mental status are well
known. According to WedMD, the psychological effects are a distorted
sense of time; paranoia; "magical" thinking; memory loss; slowed
reaction time; anxiety and depression with impairment and the residual effects
from the drug lasting hours, days or even weeks. This doesn't even
take into consideration the physiological effects that marijuana has on one's
body.
In my almost 60 years, which was old when my father was 60,
but not today, more and more, I am feeling like a dinosaur as these
"progressive" ideas take center stage and get traction for all the
wrong reasons.
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