The article “What Readers Say about Marijuana” (Parade, July 31, 1994, p. 16) reported “More than 75% of the readers who took part in an informal PARADE telephone poll say marijuana should be as legal as alcoholic beverages.” The telephone poll was announced on page 5 of the June 12 issue; readers were instructed to “Call 1-900-773-1200, at 75 cents a call, if you would like to answer the following questions.

Use touch-tone phones only. To participate, call between 8 a.m. EDT [Eastern Daylight Time] on Saturday, June 11, and midnight EDT on Wednesday, June 15.” Discuss in detail.