Kitsap Sun, 25 Oct 2012 – The ballots arrived last week and in addition to electing those who will represent us there are a number of ballot measures which must be decided. The following are my recommendations on those measures. Is it in the public’s best interest to increase marijuana usage? That’s the question I asked myself when deciding how to vote on Initiative 502, which would decriminalize limited use of the drug. Would there be support for making cigarette smoking legal if possession of cigarettes were illegal today? Knowing what we know about the health hazards related to smoking, I doubt it. Yet the most common way marijuana is used, like cigarettes, is through smoking and inhaling the substance.