Do you not realize that your neighbors and co-workers and people you conduct business with are using pot all the time and have been forever – even when it was illegal? Can you not figure that out because sane minds have decided not to ruin people’s lives for using weed? That does not mean every person, child or adult will now have to partake in this new and mysterious drug. Does it not dawn on you that adults have this thing called “free will” and that those intelligent enough to harness it do not fear going over the cliff into addiction the way you do? Do you think that the new legal pot sellers are going to suddenly start selling to kids more than old underground sellers did? Do you expect every adult older than 21 to suddenly become a pot grower now just because it’s legal – even though the profit motive is now gone?

This is all typical flawed conservative thinking. So, by my calculation, using conservatives’ paranoid logic, all of Colorado should be fully addicted to marijuana by the Fourth of July or so. So, party on Garth, John Denver would be proud.

Maurice Harrigan

Pittsboro, N.C.