Pubdate: Sat, 26 Feb 2011
Source: Gazette, The (Colorado Springs, CO)
Copyright: 2011 The Gazette
Contact: http://www.gazette.com/sections/opinion/submitletter/
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/165
Author: Justin Daniel Packard

I NEED SOME MILK!

Frankly, I do not see how limiting medical marijuana is going to help 
anything. It is not the only drug that messes with a person's mind 
and puts them in a state that is not suitable for driving.

Many heavy painkillers have the same types of effects, putting a 
person into a state where driving would not be safe. If a limit is 
placed on medical marijuana, limits are going to start on all other 
sorts of drugs.

And why do lawmakers feel placing a limit is going to stop anything? 
If a person takes medical marijuana how are they going to know fully 
what they are doing? Most likely, they will not be thinking straight 
and won't give a second thought about driving. They'll look in their 
fridge see the milk is gone and think, "I need milk!" The next thing 
you know they are pulled over for taking their meds. Limiting medical 
marijuana isn't going to change anything.

It's just going to make trips to the grocery store that much more interesting.

Justin Daniel Packard

Colorado Springs
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