Letter Of The Day

Anybody ever wanted to be able to drive their vehicle because they lost their license due to an alcohol law? Well if you haven’t, it’s a real pain in the butt, always looking for rides and walking everywhere.

Another problem people are facing is being put in jail for doing drugs and experiencing the high life. Sometimes, druggies are put in prison for more than 25 years, completely changing their family’s lives, their friends’ lives and also community.

I don’t think anybody should look at stoners as criminals because a stoner’s not guilty of anything but having a good time and a good appetite for getting messed up.

Some politicians and citizens are just darn right turned around about the bad things they say about drinking and driving laws, alcohol laws and plain drugs in general. Anybody against this stuff should wake up from their ingenious lives and learn how to respect these kinds of people and work on these laws so these people aren’t burned anymore.

Look at me, for instance. I’m 23 years old already put in jail for smoking marijuana and put on probation for three years and now considered a felon, banning me from the right to join the military and own a gun. I’m pretty much screwed from a lot of things in this world and still feel just as good as anybody else.

--TODD MARTIN, Rockwell

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