This is in response to your editorial, "Medical marijuana, yes or no?," March 9:

Obama's administration is giving the choice of legalization of medical marijuana to each state individually. He is just opening a whole new set of issues in America. The legalization of marijuana in the state of California is becoming more and more of a popular opinion, and coming closer to becoming official.

If the state starts allowing marijuana in certain situations, it opens a can of worms. People will start getting the idea that if marijuana is OK for this person to use, obviously it is not a bad thing for them to use. The idea of marijuana as a medicine could cause a rampage of drug-addicted people in the state. That may not have been the intent of the researchers and doctors, but it will be the outcome. The actions of these potentially drug-addicted people will not be profitable to the state. The health of them will be even worse; pulse and blood pressure increases rapidly and airways are impaired from marijuana use.

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