Mary Jane

LETTER TO EDITOR

Early College High School
2050 Hwy 501 East

Conway, SC 29528

September 19, 201

dbrianna70@gmail.com

Letter to Editor

The Sun News

P.O Box 406

Myrtle Beach, SC 29578

Dear Editor and Chief:

My name is Brianna Dickerson. I am a sophomore at HCS Early College High School in Conway.

I wanted to address a topic on marijuana because it should be illegal due to all the negative effects it has. Many people believe it cures and helps pain, but studies show that marijuana makes pain more bearable rather than curing it. It causes your immune system to weaken, so you have a chance of getting sick more easily. Marijuana not only gets you hooked, but it will make you have short-term memory loss. If you try and quit smoking marijuana you will exhibit side effects such as anxiety, sleeping difficulties, and cravings.

Many users do not understand that dependency on marijuana is a huge factor. Smoking marijuana does not bring you up to average intellectually; it brings you below your baseline. The damage is permanent! If an adult who began to use marijuana as a teen then stops, they do not regain what is lost. Let’s make marijuana illegal!

Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate your help and hope to hear from you soon.

Sincerely,

Brianna Dickerson

NARRATIVE POEM

The Drug They Call Mary Jane

Can’t control the things I do

                          Can’t control      the things I say

                                 Facing           hallucination

        My            heart’s racing 

           A             thousand paces

                       Faster            than usual

               Mary Jane, what             did you do to me?

             Struggling through             the pressure of life

             Living in the home               of a battered wife

             Can’t deal with the               pressure and pain

 Trying to deal with                the situation alone

               Trouble in                my mind

    Trouble in               my home

                 Mary Mary don’t              hurt my mind

                    Slowly losing my          thoughts over time

  Loving a drug    that loves no one

                                              Living a life I wouldn’t wish on my son

Fading thoughts

Instant      hunger

                                  Constant          thirst

Now I           wonder

    What did I              get myself into?

I found a way                to ease my pain

                             But when                it’s over

My situation                 remains the same

                        Mary wasn’t              true to me

Dope boys were telling             me how to ease the pain

    They say it makes the              sun shine through the rain

A mind               blower

 Time                slower

       And a pain killer,             all the same

  Who couldn’t love a               girl named Mary Jane?

                   Sleepless                nights

Body is               shaking

   Never             any sleep

My body             awakens

  Mary won’t        stop calling me

Yearning for how    she made me feel

She used to be a doll to me

 

Career stopper

                     High school    dropper

  Unfaithful       lover you are

  Supposedly             my falling star

                    That I wish upon            to ease my pain

        Yet you played with my             mind like a kiddy game

I didn’t want            to let her go

                         I thought I’ll              break in two

   The years           started flying

  I went and             saw Dr. Brian

He found        my residue

  My lungs will    never be the same

   And it’s all because of the drug they call Mary Jane…