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Marijuana is an addictive, gateway drug. It significantly impairs bodily and mental functions, and its use is related to increased violence. These are facts. Yet proponents of legalizing the drug studiously deny or downplay the well-documented dark side of marijuana trafficking and use.
The legalization of marijuana would be a simplistic solution to a complicated problem. It would increase use and, with it, a host of attendant social problems. So if I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times, because tobacco and alcohol are legal is no reason to make marijuana legal. If anything, it shows us that we should keep pot illegal. Dr. Mark Creech is executive director of the Raleigh-based Christian Action League of North Carolina, Inc.