Legalize It! It shouldn't be hard to tell what this column is about from the title of it. It's about marijuana, a drug that's much less harmful than cigarettes and alcohol and yet is demonized for reasons that befuddle this writer's mind. I'm not going to lay out the same old tired argument that potheads have used for the past half a century. But you won't see homeless potheads sitting on street corners begging for five bucks to get a bag of weed, or you won't hear about a couple stoners robbing the local gas station to get money to buy some pot. You won't hear about the hundreds of thousands of dead because of its use. My argument for why marijuana should be legal comes from a strict monetary outlet. The United States can be making so much money off taxing legalized marijuana that a sizable chunk of the federal deficit could be erased within years. [continues 329 words]
ISU's New Town And Gown Lecture Series To Address Meth Use In Wabash Valley Today Indiana State University is bringing speakers from the Terre Haute community together to present their views on the methamphetamine problem in Terre Haute and the United States. As part of the Cunningham Memorial Library's new Town and Gown lecture series, "Meth Valley: Why here? Why now?" will take place from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Cunningham Memorial Library in the first floor Browsing Area, said Steve Hardin, chair of the lecture and ISU reference and instructional librarian. [continues 244 words]
