Well, it is New Year's Eve here in Chicago at about 1:30p.m. This time of year always instills a sense of energy and the feeling that you are at a new start with open possibilities. A feeling like you are almost a new person. I love the notion of making New Year's resolutions that you would like to achieve in the year to come, but my main problem (as well as most people, I presume) is keeping the resolution. Funny how we promise ourselves to do good in the coming year, yet most of us ring in the New Year at parties, wasted on champagne, martinis, what have you... The ultimate oxymoron of holidays. I love it! Which brings me to my point. New Year's Eve and the holiday season generally equals numbers of extra police units patrolling the expressways and downtown for drunk drivers. Living in a city where there are so many people, I myself have witnessed drunken drivers swerving on the road in front of me and I always come back to the same question. How is it that alcohol is legal yet marijuana is not? Alcohol is much more addictive and impairs your judgment significantly. Driving a car, even walking in a straight line is a challenge. How then, are government officials generating a war against certain drugs such as marijuana, that are much safer than alcohol? They have also managed to create a negative stigma against marijuana and people that use marijuana which is generally scientifically unfounded. As an advertising executive and a user of marijuana, this is a topic I have put a great amount of time into. My conclusion... Make your own observations and form your own opinions. -aBrighton