Letters to the Editor (July 14)

Don’t legalize marijuana

Why are some people so eager to push the legalization of marijuana when brain scans prove that major changes occur in the brains of users? Is this what we want to promote to our impressionable youth?

Older and hopefully wiser adults are supposed to be the protectors of our youth. By legalizing, we are saying something that could ruin their lives is OK. Along with texting and alcohol, we must now worry about being on the road with drivers under the influence of marijuana.

Sadly, this drug that changes and dulls the brain has contributed to several cases of child neglect and abuse in Wichita. And these are just the ones of which we know.

It is no secret that marijuana is addictive and is a gateway to stronger drugs. Many former addicts have testified that their path to hard drugs began with marijuana. The argument for medical benefit is erased because science has developed more effective drugs for chronic pain that do not change the brain or weaken inhibitions.

Trump overcomes the haters

Jack Kratzer’s Tuesday letter (“Get over Trump’s approach”), hit the nail on the head. President Trump just made another fantastic choice in naming Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

I do not know how Trump can take so much abuse, hatred and the most awful vitriol from his enemies. Those of us who appreciate our nation’s values do understand. If we could just get it into the heads of the anti-Trumpers. I actually didn’t know that human beings could hold so much hatred, but our great president keeps forging on and doing great things.

As Kratzer said, laying aside Trump’s shortcomings, all of which are in his personal life, “we must calm the rhetoric and renew our commitment to the rule of law.” That’s what Trump ran on.

I’m sick of them saying babies at the border “were ripped from their mothers arms.” No, they weren’t. Their parents did the separation when they chose to hand their kids over to anyone who could get them to the U.S. border, which included drug smugglers and human traffickers. Now they have to be separated as the kids cannot go to the courts.

An approach gone wrong

The gentleman who wrote “Get over Trump’s approach” (Tuesday’s Eagle), when reciting all of President Trump’s poor behaviors and personality disorders, really doesn’t understand that America’s president is “elected to ‘do the work’ of the People,, a difficult job for even the most grounded of men or women. He’s not only autocratic in his decisions, his behavior is often unhinged.

A president who stays up until 3 a.m. regurgitating “media news” before Tweet-blasting is not only non-presidential, his lack of sleep in and of itself diminishes his mental and physical health, impairing his ability to even stay awake to do the job.

Trump is not only a non-leader, he won’t or can’t even support the benevolent advice given to him by his own administrative staff. His mixed message to Congress, Senate and some Supreme Court members has now virtually paralyzed all three branches of government from doing the people’s work effectively, much less presenting to the world tangible proof that America is the greatest functioning republic in history.

To one who says an “agreeable personality” is not a necessary criterion in selecting a president, but only our friends, think hard how many global friends we have already lost.