Why marijuana shouldn’t be legal

Marijuana makes you lazy and stupid – at least that was my experience. I’ve seen the same effect in many other people too. Do we really want more of that?

Colorado legislators are back in session and for many, one of their goals is to further liberalize the marijuana law on the way to full legalization.

Their guise this year is tying up loose ends and fixing the law from last year. What a joke. The only fixing going on is making it easier to get marijuana or to be one of the dealers.

I know some of my friends argue that the war on drugs like marijuana is a lost cause. I think the same could be said of many other laws such as the ones forbidding underage drinking. Just because a law is hard to enforce or expensive to enforce is not a reason to give up – at least that is what I think.

It now looks like a result of the liberalizing of “medical marijuana” is an increase in adolescent usage. That is bad on many levels. Aside from my concern of what that does for their motivation, there are studies showing a detrimental effect on their developing brain. As a society we are going to suffer some serious consequences in the future.

We probably need to come up with some better ideas of what to do to deter marijuana use – especially in youth and what to do when users violate drug laws but legalization would have a far higher price than the so called war on drugs has.


Another story in the news today is of a Jefferson County high school cafeteria manager who was arrested for supplying marijuana to her daughter’s friends and other children. This “cool-mom” had a medical-marijuana license – no surprise.

Maybe this explains why so many kids were asking for seconds on the brownies. We’ll see if her defense in court was that she was trying to do her part to alleviate the pain and suffering in the world. Hopefully this high school will not be so high after her arrest.

Philip