Sound Off for Aug. 8, 2020

Cutouts

Watching baseball and basketball games with frozen face cutouts in the stands is like watching sports being played in a museum.

Marijuana

What with many people already smoking dope anyway, the medical marijuana vote should be a resounding yes. My doctor supports it. My priest supports it, citing the revenue it could produce for all that fertile farmland in the Delta. It’s high time to get the smugglers off the streets, and legal marijuana into our homes.

Race is on

Always a race to legalize marijuana. Sorry for the neuropathy sufferer, but a clinical study evaluated cannabis use (at 1%, 4% and 7% THC) as a treatment for diabetic peripheral neuropathy and found a significant dose-dependent reduction in pain. However, again there were negative effects at the high doses. Marijuana is not a miracle drug.

Perils?

Every argument used against marijuana legalization can be used tenfold against alcohol. It gets kinda old hearing a bunch of drunks preaching about the perils of marijuana.

Voting idea

Instead of voting by mail, why not use the letter your last name begins with (A-E day one, F- K day two etc.). Make it over three or four days. Not much chance of saying people are cheating if we have to show ID. We are not delaying it, we are extending it. Should be able to control social distancing this way.

Mask disguise

During this time of COVID it is normal to see most people entering businesses wearing a mask, but why would any bank allow anyone to enter who is also wearing sunglasses and a cap to make it even more difficult to identify the individual that robs the bank? Makes no sense.

A worse disaster?

To the writer whose memory of hurricanes Camille and Katrina make them worse than COVID, I am glad that during this pandemic you still have your house, electricity, water, etc. But it is worth noting that so far COVID has killed almost 7 times the Mississippians than Katrina did (238). It’s too early in the pandemic for a final judgment.

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This story was originally published August 7, 2020 at 1:09 PM with the headline "Sound Off for Aug. 8, 2020."