In the article “Pot perceptions”, they talk about when Kim Harris, a Harvard Medical School substance abuse researcher, visits high school classes to talk about marijuana and other drugs. She does not hang up a “Just Say No” banner or talk about how a drug charge can stain a student’s criminal record she goes into detail and really breaks it down.

     The article includes many quotes and details about what’s going on and more. They were thinking about passing a law for marijuana to be legal. A quote from the text is “I think we’re going to be sacrificing the mental health of our young people if we pass this law,” said Dr. John Knight, director of the Boston Children’s Hospital Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research.  With that being said recent studies have found that marijuana use may cause or worsen mental health problems in long-term and regular users. This could be a problem.

      I think marijuana shouldn’t be legal. It would cause too many problems. Everyone would be high all the time. Smoking marijuana messes with your brain/brain cells. Marijuana acts on the cannabinoid receptors, thought to be a kind of regulatory system for the brain that plays a role in memory and learning, among other things and smoking will hurt all of that. Before I read the article I wasn’t so sure about me liking the article but after reading the article I liked it and it interested me a lot.

       This article reminded me of another news article that I read a while ago. The article was about legalizing Marijuana. Both articles are questioning the idea of legalizing the drug.

      This article helped me think more deeply about the article. I now know and feel stronger about this topic.