Pubdate: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 Source: Sun Peaks Independent News (CN BC) Copyright: 2005 Sun Peaks Independent News Contact: http://www.sunpeaksnews.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4038 Author: Russell Barth Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmjcn.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal - Canada) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?143 (Hepatitis) GOVERNMENT: FRIEND OR FOE? Dear Editor, Re: Two-Million: can he do it? (SPIN, Volume 3, Issue 11) A man with cancer uses nothing but cannabis, and he is healthier than most people his age? I don't get it. My government insists that cannabis causes cancer, brain damage, schizophrenia, and impotence, indulgence in harder drugs, unsafe sex, and junk food consumption. They also insist that cannabis has no medical value, yet my own fibromyalgia and depression, my wife's epilepsy and post-traumatic stress disorder, my friend's hepatitis and arthritis, and Montel Williams' Multiple Sclerosis, are all well-managed by using nothing but cannabis. Could it be that my government has been lying to us all this time, to forward their own agenda? Russell Barth, Federal Medical Marijuana License Holder, former Federal Marijuana Party Candidate (Ottawa West-Nepean, 2004), Ottawa - --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D