We as voters in 2004 approved medical marijuana in Montana. We were duped! The pot smokers knew we would fall for the compassion pitch for the elderly and deathly sick. Their plan worked perfectly, because now pot is legal for anyone of any age to get on every street corner.

It is next to our schools and churches. It is destroying our next generation of children and grandchildren. Our children now think pot is medicine and legal, because everyone is doing it. Don't believe me, ask your teachers and kids.

What kind of community do we want to live in? Pot houses, tattoo parlors, and casinos on every corner. This is not why we moved our seven children to Montana 18 years ago. We moved away from big-city crime, drugs and violence to a clean, beautiful, moral Montana with great schools. Our seven children our grown and doing well because Montanans believe in strong families and great drug-free schools. I am scared to death of what my grandchildren, the next generation of Zabawas, are going to have to deal with.

If marijuana is a medicine, let the FDA, pharmacists, Walgreens and doctors who have been trained on marijuana hand it out to citizens who need the medicine. The state will never be smart enough to outfox pot smokers.