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I'd just like to note the second paragraph, "According to a 2009 study performed by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, while cigarette use among the nation's teenagers has decreased, the use of marijuana has increased. The federal study on students also reported a higher use of prescription painkillers and a diminishing awareness about the risk of these illicit drugs." My point exactly!!! Do you, Miss MARY PAT ANGELINI, believe that teenage use of cigarettes going down is bad thing?? I've been an avid medical marijuana supporter for quite some time, and from the thousand of papers and journals I've read on the topic, I've never heard of somebody dieing from smoking marijuana. However, we all know the dangers and negative health effects of smoking cigarettes, and nobody seems to care about it. We, in New Jersey, have to be 19 years old to purchase cigarettes, yet you can't go to a high-school in the state that doesn't have a population of cigarette smokers. What does this tell you? It tells me that you can't stop people, especially kids, from doing what they want to. Isn't that what America was based on, freedom?? And to say that legalizing marijuana for terminal patients will make it more accessible for kids is just, sorry to say this, moronic. Everyday, DEADLY pharmaceutical drugs are prescribed to patients with prescriptions and they do get to the kids or "hit the streets". Does this mean these drugs should be illegal? Of coarse not. Patients in pain need something to take care of their pain, and to keep a medicine from these people is wrong. Marijuana will be accessible in New Jersey whether it is legal OR illegal. If you knew a terminal patient like I do, you would cry to see the pain they go through on a daily basis. And to keep a medicine that takes their pain away is simply wrong and selfish. And I totally agree with Mr. Wolski, that seeing cancer patients or AIDS/HIV patients using this drug doesn't glamorize it. To me, it actually demoralizes it. Who would wish that upon themselves? You anti-marijuana "experts" are simply stuck in the past. In conclusion, I just want to say that this whole state / country / world could be a more beautiful place if people would simply open their mind to new things instead of simply shooting it down because of your past notion that this plant is bad. Have a heart, help the sick, and heal the world.