80°F
weather icon Mostly Clear
Las Vegas, NV
Letters

LETTER: Pot lounges for Las Vegas are a bad idea

(Las Vegas Review-Journal)
(Las Vegas Review-Journal)
More Stories
LETTER: Utah lawsuit threatens the concept of public lands
LETTER: Nevada should look to Colorado when it comes to casinos and smoking
President Joe Biden. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)
LETTER: Longing for the days of Donald Trump
Vice President Kamala Harris. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
LETTER: Kamala tries to stay in hiding
Art Gearhart Las Vegas
June 2, 2021 - 6:01 pm
 
Updated June 2, 2021 - 9:00 pm

Have our lawmakers gone crazy? Don’t they know DUI is a major problem in Nevada? Channel 8 news just reported there were 2,300 arrests in 2020 for drug-related DUIs. Seventy percent of those were for marijuana. Now they want to legalize lounges for smoking marijuana. How do you think the people visiting these lounges will get there? And, more importantly, get back to their homes/hotels? Lawmakers see dollars. I see a lot more deaths on our roadways. Enough already.

MOST READ
Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.
MORE STORIES
THE LATEST
LETTER: Utah lawsuit threatens the concept of public lands
Jocelyn Torres North Las Vegas

A ruling in favor of Utah’s lawsuit would mark the end of public lands as we know them, opening the floodgates to every anti-public lands politician in the West to seize public lands by way of the courts.

Vice President Kamala Harris. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
LETTER: Kamala tries to stay in hiding
James McDonald Henderson

It is readily apparent that Ms. Harris does not like or handle spontaneous situations well.

Former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
LETTER: The real immigration debate
David Antonini Las Vegas

How should the U.S. go about crafting solutions to immigration that acknowledges the need to uphold our immigration laws while also trying to uphold the spirit of America that has always welcomed immigrants?

K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal @KMCannonPhoto
LETTER: Hectoring us on road safety
Bert Woywod Las Vegas

Why on earth do we allow these huge 18-wheelers in the left lanes of our freeways? That’s like having a speeding missile on your back bumper.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
LETTER: The invective flies both ways
James Hutkin Henderson

Where is your editorial on Donald Trump and JD Vance toning down the rhetoric? Or are you tone-deaf to their remarks?

Vice President Kamala Harris. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
LETTER: The Democratic ‘gift’ to America
Alan G. Smith Henderson

What are the people of Springfield to do? Kamala Harris expects these poor citizens to somehow feed, shelter, clothe, medicate and educate the 20,000 uninvited.