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Who says marijuana use is a cause of crime?
Dear Editor,
In response to the piece published, editorials “…drugs and crime,” I find it highly inaccurate and somewhat biased. Though well written, it is extremely naive to assume that drugs are the initial cause of crimes in our country. Although I do agree that the magistrates are rather “ uncaring and senseless, “ it doesn’t take drugs to make you a criminal, rather its criminals that indulge in drugs. Marijuana when smoked induces a state of relaxation which a career criminal would need in order to carry out his insidious agenda against innocent civilians, which ever that may be. Yes scientific evidence proves that drugs can alter a person’s mentality and inclinations towards society, but the effects of marijuana does not affect negatively those of a lesser mental development, rather than those of a pedantic nature. To sinuate this, it is not only biased but ignorant.
Cocaine makes you violent. Lysergic acid makes you violent. Amphetamines make you violent. Marijuana is not the underlying cause of crime. Lack of governmental participation is employment opportunities, mental health care, insufficient education, for young adults is the real problem.
D. Williams
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