Letters from the August 7, 2004, issue of Science News

Pot shots

Regarding “Pot on the Spot: Marijuana’s risks become blurrier” (SN: 5/22/04,

p. 323: Pot on the Spot: Marijuana’s risks become blurrier), it seems to me that the stronger the social pressure against using marijuana in a culture, the more likely it will be that those who use it will be troubled, antisocial, or unusually independent.