Regarding “City could get $350,000 per year for retail marijuana sales tax” (Kent Reporter, July 18):
Welcome to Kent, where we welcome our pot-smoking friends. Not.
It’s too bad that you could see the handwriting on the wall with this issue.
How many more babies will end up at the Pediatric Interim Care Center? How many children will go to school hungry, ill dressed, underfed because money has been spent on a pot addiction?
How many will come tardy to school because the parent(s) didn’t get up and help their kids get ready on time? How many will continue into middle school with more destructive behavior patterns modeled from the lack of care in their primary years? How many will go to high school, drop out, go to jail or end up at iGrad?
How many will not get jobs because they can’t pass a drug test or were fired? How many will go on welfare and stay on welfare at the taxpayer’s expense? How many new signs will go up where innocent people have lost their lives?
Colorado has a lot of statistics that support recreational drug use is harmful. Our own state patrol is seeing an escalation in the number of drug-related driving problems.
What is the cost to people? Are you willing to risk money for human lives? You best think about this.
– Mary LaFond
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