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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 33, No. 5 22 April 1970

Marijuana and students

Marijuana and students

Sir,

For years I have watched the activities of students, and have felt many emotions, because of such. Gladness, coldness, surprise, sickness, contempt and anger, as well as pity and yes, compassion, have moved me at times.

You are all very young and your education does not begin in earnest until your university days are over and each one of you must face up to, and make unique decisions, without the help, co-operative or otherwise, of any other person but the first.

How blindly you call into being associations for this or for that, and, despite your learning, how often you overlook the qualities possessed by many who have not even entered any university and yet are most wise on any issue.

Have any of you known the true heartbreak of parents who have watched their son or daughter in hell because of drug addiction?

If any of you do, I am certain that he or she is not sympathetic towards legalising marijuana. And do not try to justify that stuff if you have not experienced the hopelessness of people who have smoked marijuana become addicted to it, and craved stronger drugs as a result.

Are any of you Christians?

If any of you are, you will not be encouraging the downfall of any other person. Are any of you anti-Christ? Any of you who are, will not give a darn about who might have to suffer if marijuana is made legal.

Your reward will be the temporary one of satisfaction in having your own way for no other reason than that because you are young and a university student.

I will add that the argument held by the champions of legalising marijuana that it is not a habit-forming drug, holds no water, against the truth that drugs of any kind have no power over any balanced person, and because of that, balanced people see clearly that they hold the responsibility of abolishing marijuana from the respectability of legality for the sakes of others who are not so balanced, and through no fault of their own, have no protection other than that offered by the strength of balanced people to ward off the temptation, by openly and fearlessly opposing the people who are not concerned with the misery of others, but whom are at liberty to enlist the same help when and if it is ever needed.

Mrs V.M. Downey