URGENT NEED FOR WELL-PUBLICIZED FACTUAL STATEMENTS IN TEXAS ON WHY MARIJUANA SHOULD NOT BE LEGALIZED FOR 'RECREATIONAL USE' IN THE LONE STAR STATE

There appears to be an urgent need for well-publicized factual statements in Austin on why marijuana should NOT be legalized in Texas for so-called "recreational use".

A recent 2021 newsletter (no date of publication cited anywhere in that newsletter, though the newsletter explains that it was written AFTER the 2021 session of the Legislature had ended) that was mailed to me by my duly-elected District 14 state senator, Sarah Eckhardt, contains the following statement:

"Some priorities of mine (Senator Eckhardt) include:
"...Legalizing Marijuana. It is time Texans had the freedom to use marijuana if they choose to. Texas should join the 18 other states that have embraced individual liberty and legalized recreational marijuana use."

Democratic Party-affiliated State Senator Eckhardt represents and serves all the residents of Travis County, Texas, and Bastrop County, Texas.

Among the many questions that come to mind for me are: If consumption of "recreational" marijuana were legalized by the Legislature, does this mean that when an air-traffic controller at a public airport in Texas decides to "get high" while off duty, there is no scenario in which his "off-duty pursuit of recreational marijuana-smoking" might hours or minutes later have a bearing on his on-duty job performance while directing airplane pilots from his control tower?

Could "getting high off-duty" cause a plane to dive downward---not upward----and crash minutes or hours later when that same air-traffic controller was "on duty" at his airport job?

Does this suggest that the proposed "liberalization" of state law in Texas would have to exclude certain "public-safety-sensitive" occupational groups--air-traffic controllers among them--- from being granted that so-called "right to get high on marijuana during their leisuretime"?

Could a new state law citing a long list of occupational groups not "granted" the so-called "right to get high" when they are off-duty, be later challenged and overturned as unconstitutional in a court of law in Texas?

Would it deny numerous law-abiding occupational groups of "equal protection" or "equal opportunity" under the law if they are specifically denied the cited "right to get recreationally high" during their own leisuretime?