It should be. Smoking pot is illegal. No one has ever overdosed from marijuana use. Last year nearly 700,000 Americans were arrested for marijuana possession. The suggestion that using marijuana will cause a person's family to begin using it, or cause a person to begin trading sex for it, is absurd.
People can think for themselves.
Marijuana can be used responsibly. Marijuana prohibition or legalization is not the cause nor the cure for this country's problems with child abuse, STDs, criminal activity, unproductive employees or deadbeat parents. Tess suggests that marijuana is linked to all these problems. She does not mention that marijuana is often linked to nonviolence, peace and love. This November's election will determine whether Alaskans have the proper education about the issues before them.