With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

A feature of life in Colorado is the prevalence of pot, and there are dispensaries on virtually

every corner, everywhere I travel.

I hear a pot joke.

And something else my adopted state is quickly becoming known for are all the harmful

after-effects of legalizing marijuana.

According to state statistics, in some 42 percent of teen suicides, the drug was found

in the system, a rate nearly twice as much as alcohol and four times of any other substance.

Of course, correlation doesn't mean causation, but it does imply connection.

If nearly half of stroke victims were taking the same medicine, we'd wonder if there

was a link.

Why are there reluctance to make the connection here?

Marijuana might not cause suicide, but numbers don't lie.

It encourages and exacerbates problems that lead down that really deadly road, especially

for a high-risk group.

The links there are for anyone willing to see it.

Since suicide rates have risen every year, pots have been legal.

We're way past giving the benefit of the doubt.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.