Tuesday, April 30, 2013: Marijuana, public school funding and GMO labels

Promoting miracle drug

Well, I see the self delusional, drug dependent, no, the addicted, are at it again. Legalize marijuana a proven gateway drug, put it at the top of taxpayers concerns and add it to the top of a voting ballot. Could there be anything worse to prioritize or to debate?

So this is how we fight the war on drugs and drug dependency? Promoting a so-called miracle drug and saying that by legalizing it, we would rid the world of heroin and its power of addiction, crack addictions, addictions to prescription pills, so-on and so-forth, that it would miraculously rid the world of drug dealers and their hypocrisy and violent ways.

Self-denial and delusion is a wonder to behold; it is almost outweighed by selfishness and ignorance. This is promoting a drug that has addictive qualities and has led more people to experiment with worse and become addicted to worse. It has ruined more than its fair share of lives and ultimately ended some.

Constant encouragement of a drug-dependent society is heart warming and yet scary at the same time. Dont we, the taxpayers, have more serious and important issues to worry about?

David T. Brown

Baileyville

There is a group of people in Maine in danger of paying much more money for their individual or small business employee health insurance than they did two years ago. I am concerned that the insurance companies keep raising the premiums in their plans without any public hearing.

LD 1333 passed in 2011, abolished the rate-review process, which included having public hearings to allow public comments whenever an insurance company wanted to raise its rates by more than 10 percent.

In this 126th Maine Legislature, a bill, LD 225, An Act To Restore Consumer Rate Review for Health Insurance Plans in Individual and Small Group Markets, proposes to protect interests of these people.

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013: Marijuana, public school funding and GMO labels