Pubdate: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 Source: Seattle Times (WA) Copyright: 2011 The Seattle Times Company Contact: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/409 Author: Joan Piper CHILDREN ALREADY UNDER ENOUGH PEER PRESSURE Your paper left out anything about organized opposition to making pot legal. Making it legal sends a message that it is OK to use, maybe even socially necessary. Our kids are under enough pressure from the drug culture as it is. We should be supporting people who want to stay clean and sober, cherishing healthy brains and lungs -- not undermining them. You can see the twisted thinking addiction causes when legalizing drugs is offered as a solution to drug-cartel violence. If people are really concerned about murderous drug cartels, then don't buy drugs. Society doesn't need to enable any more addicts. Joan Piper Bainbridge Island - --- MAP posted-by: Richard R Smith Jr.