Letter to the Editor: Reader takes issue with vote legalizing marijuana

A new study out of New Zealand shows individuals who started smoking pot in their early teens and who quit by their 18th birthday, 20 years later that their IQ was 7-8% lower than the mean, which means where median is 50 they have dropped to 29. People who smoke marijuana lose their initiative and drive. You become self-centered and interested primarily in yourself. Ambition is out the window.

The drug can stay in your body for 30 days. Lingering affects can last for weeks. After euphoria wears off, depression is liable to follow. Most cocaine and meth users say they started with marijuana. Wh...