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Trudeau's essay was right to the point. I think many people will have to agree with his "oath" that "at one time I possessed, consumed and probably distributed marijuana ... activities for which I may feel embarrassment but not guilt." You have opened a discussion that is long overdue. Trudeau's logic is magic. ROBERT L. DOAK Kissimmee, Florida...
...resent the claim repeated by Trudeau that every person of a certain age used drugs, especially marijuana. Perhaps I was isolated in special places, but I did not use drugs and know very few people who did. I accept Trudeau's confession as his own but consider it the height of arrogance that he feels the need to apologize for an entire generation when he really knows no reality other than his own. ROLFE HUNT Bainbridge, Georgia...
...never heard of anyone dying of a marijuana overdose. I did, however, in college hear of people going into brain-damaging comas from alcohol. The alcohol made you decorate the sidewalks and wake up with a headache. Pot merely gave you the munchies, guaranteeing employment for the pizza business. Legalize it, tax it and that will help to lower the deficit. PETE HANCE Fogelsville, Pennsylvania...
...flippant piece by Trudeau is exactly why we have a growing teenage drug problem today. Many adults in his peer group show by their actions and words that they still view using marijuana as a harmless pursuit. Trudeau's attempt at satire is unforgivable when you consider how many young people's lives are permanently destroyed and damaged by drugs. DAVID A. WALKER JR. Cleveland, Ohio...
Libertarians believe that marijuana smokers -- those who are not a threat to society -- should have a right to privacy. This reflects the over-arching Libertarian social policy: The government should only protect individual citizens from external threats, not from themselves...