Towns are banning purchase of tobacco products under the claim it’s for the health and safety of our children. Meanwhile they doing nothing about the use of marijuana and the health problems that go with it.

Look in the pipe bowl that tobacco was smoked in. See the residue left behind? Ugh, not nice. Now look in a pipe bowl that marijuana was smoked in. Again residue left behind, ugly but more than two times residue from tobacco smoking. That’s the unknown garbage going into one’s body. Both items are not good for you.

Studies on the effects of marijuana on the body are not looking good. So you ban one item but promote the other smoking products because of money it brings in. Sort of like prohibition of alcohol. Let’s treat both products the same until further studies have been done on effects of long-term use. Keep smoke out of your body.

Jerome Yezierski

Hadley