Get Message Out About Marijuana

As a Baby Boomer and now a mother of teenagers, I was very interested in the research done on the marijuana available today. A University of Mississippi research project found an increased potency of the drug — double what it was in the ’70s and ’80s! We parents all need to hear that.

As of late, marijuana is considered by many as “no big deal” or “harmless.”

As if the teenagers of today needed any added stumbling blocks: They already live in a troubled society with public officials who break the law, violence on TV screens, one-parent families, no jobs around, increase in teenage sex (wonder why?), promiscuity on the rise, rise, rise, and a lot of laws that do nothing at all to help teenagers who are getting addicted to this drug that we all thought wasn’t addictive!

Research has proven that marijuana use can lead them right to the more addictive drugs like cocaine and heroin. We now have a responsibility to get this message out: It is harmful. It is addictive! It contains dangerous amounts of harmful chemicals.

LIZA MACCERONE

North Providence

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