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Don’t stir this pot

I have a few comments in regard to the legalization of pot. Evidently, the pot experts feel it would be a $560 million business in the state of Washington. I do not doubt the author, but want to say there are some costs that extend beyond the purchase price of the drug.

My experience with contractors who tolerate marijuana use by their workers on a construction job is they risk the chance of a bad accident, poor workmanship, a poor attendance record and inferior quality of the final job.

There is no doubt that the continued use of the drug is habit-forming, and oftentimes leads to use of stronger and more expensive narcotics. It also has a debilitating effect on the user.

We have a $15 trillion and growing debt handed to us by our current president. Better we should look to how we are going to handle that.

Leon E. Carpenter

Spokane

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