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Legalizing pot is also very relevant to college students like you and me. I know, and you probably do to, know loads of people who smoke pot. Most of us use it as a recreational drug, but I don’t think it should be illegal to do that either. It is legal to drink, and every frat on campus takes in underage kids to get drunk, and in some cases to a dangerous level. This slides by as the normal thing to do, which I don’t have a problem with, I actually condone it. What I do have a problem with is the fact that if I have a rough day (and every day is rough in college) and feel like relaxing how I choose by smoking a blunt while harming no others, I am all of the sudden considered a criminal. Some underage kid can join a frat, learn about greek life, and get hammered 5 days a week. I have absolutely no objections. But that kid graduates with being in a fraternity, which looks very prestigious on a resume. The person, who likes to smoke 5 nights a week instead of drink, could build up a criminal record and keep them from finding a good job. Both of these activities are mirror images, two people doing what they like to do to “get away” or to party, or whatever the reason for it. This all seems so crazy and unjust to me. There are a very small percentage of people who experience negative effects, and those negative effects disappear overtime if a user stops.