Every week, we poll the members of the editorial board on a timely and divisive topic. This week, the question is: 1. Would you support a medical marijuana law in Texas? 2. Would you support legalizing marijuana nationwide, even for...
A Leading Question is a comment on the news or the incidents of daily life, posed in the form of a question. We love to get LQs, and we publish the best each week in the Letters stack of the...
Re: "Is it time to legalize? It's the only way for the U.S to control the demand for drugs, say Andrés Rozental and Stanley A. Weiss," Wednesday Viewpoints. I'm always interested in pro-legalization movements and literature and was pleased to...
Re: "Real moral to Phelps' bong story -- All drugs are not equal; laws should be changed to reflect that, says Kathleen Parker," Saturday Viewpoints. Parker was right on the money about Michael Phelps. This guy won how many Olympic...
Last week, our pages focused attention on the dumb decision by Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps to smoke pot out of a bong while someone snapped a photo. It will cost him millions of dollars in endorsements. But what's even...
If pot were legal ... Re: "Pot and Consequences -- Olympian's bong photo is one more dot to connect," Tuesday Editorials. Did we not learn anything from Prohibition? If we took the illegal aspect of marijuana out of it, it...
We asked our Sounding Off list members: What should teenagers learn from the scandal involving Michael Phelps smoking pot? If the spirit moves you, feel free to respond to this question in the comments section here. Or, if you'd like...
As the father of a 9-year-old boy, I was relieved this morning when he told me that the news of Michael Phelps' drug use made him decide to take Phelps' image down from his wall, where it has been since...
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