OPINION:
As “Is legal weed making more people addicted? A new study suggests so” (Web, Aug. 24) implies, justifications for legalization of marijuana with a potency of 1% to 3% should be seriously reconsidered for marijuana with roughly 10 times that THC.
We seem to be in a place akin to one where alcohol is legal and people deny that alcohol abuse and alcoholism exist because they do not want to go back to Prohibition.
The “it doesn’t have that much impact” justification for legalization of 1% to 3% marijuana should be rethought when it is 18% to 23% THC marijuana. We must reexamine the nature of what is legal, when it is legal for whom it is legal.
The Washington Times might consider reporting on marijuana-related DUIs and the resulting harm?
GARY STONEBURNER
Gaithersburg, Maryland
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