The stoned reading

[Sojourner]

At 10:14 PM 9/13/97 -0400, Paul Mackin wrote:

>
>On the theory that statistical backup never hurts this morning's N.Y Times
>(on the page opposite the disgusting food article cited by David) contains
the
>following valuable information and I quote: A study of undergraduates at
the University of Maryland found that those with the lowest grade averages
were four times more likely to smoke pot than those with the highest. No
such gap was observed between good and poor students who drank alcohol.
>

At the risk of offending you, do you think that if you
removed marijuana (and other illegal drugs) from those
students' lives, would their grades improve?

The scary part of being paranoid is that it never leaves
you alone.  The moment I began associating with people
who consume marijuana was the moment I began to get
to know successful adults who smoked, from friends' 
parents to such notable figures as Mike Wallace (from 60
minutes).

And then you go to the gov't website, praying for info,
praying for hardcore facts and stats saying weed is bad,
and they JUST DO NOT DELIVER.

*sighs sadly and tearfully*