Pubdate: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 Source: Burlington County Times (NJ) Copyright: 2012 Calkins Newspapers. Inc. Contact: https://phillyburbs-dot-com.bloxcms-ny1.com/contact/ Website: http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/burlington_county_times_news/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2128 Author: John J. Pluta ARE SENIORS TRYING TO LEGALIZE MARIJUANA? After reading Bill Federico's letter to the editor (Jan. 16), I must admit to being puzzled. He speaks of the 1960s movement and says hippies revitalized pot for the new decade. Surely he does not think that pot disappeared for these many years. And just who is revitalizing it --- the ones with knowledge and experience of marijuana perhaps? The youngsters don't have the power to push such things through the Legislature. Therefore, it must be those '60s hippies. Of course, who are these hippies we are talking about? Well, if you subtract 1960 from 2011, you wind up with 51. If you were one of those radicals in 1960 and you were 18 years of age then, you would be 69 today. That means you would be a grandfather, probably on Medicare. If I was a suspicious person, I would think that our senior citizens, who used the stuff in the past, are trying to sneak something through the New Jersey Legislature that they could not do years ago. Remember the quote from Lenny Bruce, "Marijuana will be legal someday, because the many law students who now smoke pot will someday become congressmen and legalize it in order to protect themselves." John J. Pluta Wrightstown - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom