I would like to see a survey done of how many overdose victims got their start using drugs by using marijuana. Also, how many people who committed suicide had been using marijuana.
To have marijuana legalized for non-medicinal usage is a bad move for the future of Maine’s young people and anyone else.
It is also a wrong move for society.
Larry Shaw, Mexico
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