Pot education needed

Thu., June 2, 2016

The Spokesman-Review reports in the May 24 issue that the adult smoking rate in the nation is falling. That is a good thing. The reduced rate is attributed to “mounting impact of anti-smoking advertising campaigns, cigarette taxes and smoking bans.”

Last week the Spokesman-Review reported a 44 percent increase in DUI citations involving marijuana use on our state highways. Yet not a single councilman or state legislator has stood up and initiated a program of education as to the ills of marijuana use and bad affects it has on our society and our children. It will take a bloody cataclysmic event before they do.

John Bunch

Mead

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