Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

To the Editor:

We can end the argument about the legalization of marijuana once and for all by saturating the media with brain scans of marijuana smokers compared with those of drug-free brains. Then ask the question: “Is this the brain we want for our children, ourselves?”

Debra Erickson Jay
Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.
Oct. 16, 2010

The writer is an addiction specialist and the author of “No More Letting Go: The Spirituality of Taking Action Against Alcoholism and Drug Addiction.”