Writer offers opinion

To The Eagle:

There are many new age snake oil salesmen telling anyone who will listen about the many wonderful benfits marijuana has in store for you.

Get real, the only thing that belongs in your lungs is air. I know you can ingest it in food, too, just to get that high you think you need or worse, maybe even have become addicted to.

I know a lot of you won’t gather round to hear my pitch, but here it goes anyway. If you need to feel good, you know, get that high, why not visit a lonely person, maybe mentor a child, buy a kid in need some school supplies, purchase some pet treats and feed the unloved animals at a shelter or just do something nice for someone else.

I for one, do not need a Ph.D to know that one drug often leads to another, more destructive one, and the horrible consequences that come with it.

There is no shortage of weed around here, but if you must have more, go to Longview, that’s where everyone else has to go when they need something not sold in Wahkiakum County.

Now to the economic geniuses that think we need the chump change revenue from pot, why not legalize and tax prostitution, gambling and God knows what else, to raise more revenue for the county.

On a personal note, I have known Commissioner Dan Cothren as a friend, a father to many good children, a politician with integrity and just an all around good guy, I am not alone in this opinion, the man has been re-elected a number of times.

The only advice I would offer anyone who thinks otherwise about Dan is that you might wait a little longer after you “puff the stuff” to write letters and try to remember before you attack someone’s character that he may have simply misread your letter, you know, people do make mistakes. Isn’t that why they put erasers on pencils?

If someone is interested in the truth about drug use, just ask the recovering addicts whose lives were nearly destroyed by it, or the parents who have seen their children suffer the effects of drug use and not the snake oil salesmen and pot peddlers you find on the street.

I moved here about 12 years ago because I liked the town the way it was. I sometimes wonder why so many people who move here always want to change things to be more like the perceived utopia they left.

Paul Schreiber

Cathlamet