"All drugs, including alcohol and tobacco, should be legal."

There was a period in American History when alcohol was illegalized. The government called it Prohibition. It was a move that failed miserably, just like how the war on drugs is now failing miserably, Prohibition was like that until they made a move to legalize alcohol, which eventually solved the problem. We should emulate the past and do it on all drugs that are illegal now. Making them legal stops teens from thinking that they are rebelling against their parents by using them and divert their attention away from it. People might think that the idea is radical; however, radical ideas are the ones that have greatly shaped our nation for us to become what we are now, a superpower. Alcohol and all other drugs should be legal to get people’s attention away from them and make them oblivious to it.

"The Death Penalty should remain a legal form of punishment in New Mexico"

The death penalty goes a long way back in human history and has many different forms some of which are very gruesome. We have dealt with this issue for a long time and we are still dealing with this today. The death penalty should not remain a legal form of punishment in New Mexico. I believe there is other worse form of punishments than death itself, which, in my opinion, is not really a punishment, but a release from the punishments of this chaotic world. Moreover, there are innocent people who are sentenced with death penalty, which is not fair both for the convicted and his family. Others might think that death does more justice to the victim than other forms of punishment; however, killing somebody only brings the victims to the same level as the criminal and as most of us have been taught the value of forgiveness, we should just forgive them and let their conscience punish them. Death should not remain as a legal form of punishment. None of us have the right to take away life and death is not really a punishment, but a release form it.

Companies pulling sodas out of schools.

All this time I’ve been here in America, the one thing that catches my attention is how everybody here is hooked on soda. Back in my country, I have a cousin that was drinking too much soda than she could handle and soda is not even that popular there. It went to the point where she had a complication on her kidneys that she was forced to stop. For this reason, I strongly support the companies’ decision to pull out sodas in schools. Obesity is a big issue in America and from the perspective of an immigrant like me, one of the cause is the availability of sodas here. Schools in my country didn’t have the budget to even buy chairs for the students, let alone vending machines for us to buy sodas and make ourselves blow up like balloons. I’ve also read through soda ingredients, which normal kids here wouldn’t normally do, but I think I’m smart enough to want to know the things they put in the food that I eat. I found out that they put acid in some sodas and that they are loaded with sugar, and stuff that I didn’t have the slightest idea what they are or even how to read them. would you drink something that you had absolutely no idea what’s in it or what is it? Besides all that good stuff I just mentioned, you can also have complications in your digestive and urinary sytem if you drink too much. We students might say that soda is better than water; however, if we look more closely, it has more calories than water and does not even rehydrate half as well as water. Sodas should be pulled out of vending machines in school to stop the health problems that they cause.