Three cheers for Stephanie Anderson’s Maine Voices column Oct. 17. Everyone should read it and be sure to vote “No” on Question 1.

I have had personal and professional experience with the impairment resulting from marijuana use. As a young physician in Seattle, I was involved in an automobile accident caused by a marijuana-impaired driver, who was driving at high speed down the wrong side of the street.

Since there was no, and is no, test for marijuana impairment, the police refused to charge him – even for reckless driving. Instead, they asked me to do my best to provide him with medical assistance.

Maine already has a severe drug abuse problem. Let’s not make it worse.

Robert S. Hillman, M.D.

Scarborough