Dear FRONTLINE,

As a former narcotics prosecutor, I have seen the effects of the drug on so many families. I have no sympathy, and the program should have shown the damage done to lives due to DRUG USE!

Don Curdie
Little rock, AK

Dear FRONTLINE,

The huge costs of the prison and provention program must be making a lot of people extremly wealthy. The social costs are still the most staggering when you look at it in terms of the lives of the young people lost in the prison system.

S George

Dear FRONTLINE,

While I don't agree with most of the people

in the show saying that smoking pot is ok,

I don't think that they are for the most part

"hardened criminals".

If a person is growing it for sale or actively selling it should have a harsher penalty.

Medical doctors should be involved with the process of using pot for medical reasons.

The simple use of pot should not require a person to spend more time than a person who commits a violent crime.

Mike Cicero

Dear FRONTLINE,

As a user of Marijuana I commmend your show......I feel the laws should be soften....or done away with ......However this should not condone the use of this drug by minors......or distribution of the drug to minors......It really is the time to rethink about the laws and perhaps the usages of Marijuana......

Marc Picone

Dear FRONTLINE,

Pot in my opinion is a harmful drug. Ive been smoking pot for over 30 years and if any thing it helps me with a bad back and hypertension....Pot is more helpful than its

minus's, the minus's which are few. The current laws are completly unfair...

Acapulco Gold
West Palm Beach, FL

Dear FRONTLINE,

I belive that marijuana should be legal. Tobacco and alcohol are known to cause health problems and both are addictive to some people. Yet both alcohol and tobacco are legal. It should be the decision of people on how and what they use as long as one is harmed. People should use there own judgement on how they should use drug.

Hai Lam

Dear FRONTLINE,

Dear Frontline,

I can't believe the amount of money

the government spends trying to curb

the growing/use of marijuana! Why not

legalize it, regulate it and tax it,

AND make it work FOR the government.

I'm waiting for the plant to become

legal for personal growth and use. I

have Multiple Sclerosis and would much

rather use marijuana steeped in a tea

at bedtime for spasms, than take the two

drugs I take now, that can affect my liver

adversely.

When will the government wake up, and

make the punishment fit the crime?

Murderer's getting a few years, and

marijuana growers getting life?

Where the justice?????

Janet Pare'
Nashua, NH