Legalization is a truly bad idea

In response to Dan Linn, the Executive Director Illinois Chapter National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws (Illinois NORML) and his small statement why it's time to legalize and tax marijuana, let me just say, maybe you are high.

It's always about the money for some of you, but what about those of us who are parents, and the most important "thing" to us is our children?

Legalize marijuana so it can be easier for the adults who are users and or dealers, who are already deciding to break the law, to sell or just pass it on to our kids or in some cases their own? This seems inevitable to me.

Please take a look at the big picture. There will be many more broken laws with legalized marijuana, therefore more arrests, prosecutions and imprisonment at the cost of putting children in the middle. How does that benefit anyone?

Maybe Mr. Linn is not a parent. Maybe he, too, just sees dollar signs.

Then what should be legalized next, cocaine? Maybe you should re-think your ideas of how the state of Illinois could collect more tax money for the budget.

Christina Yanecek

Round Lake Beach