Pubdate: Fri, 5 Dec 2008
Source: DrugSense Weekly (DSW)
Website: http://www.drugsense.org

LETTER OF THE WEEK

POT ISN'T DANGEROUS

By David R. Ford

I'm adding a few words regarding Chief Mahuna's comments about the 
voter-approved pot initiative.

The government has not been able to prove one toxicity related death, 
ever, from marijuana.  Compare that to alcohol, nicotine and 
pharmaceutical products that together cause the death of more than 
600,000 Americans annually! The government continues to claim that 
marijuana has no medical value, and consequently it is a controlled 
Schedule I drug, along with heroin, too dangerous to prescribe! That 
makes as much sense as having Dracula guard our blood bank. I'm 
offering the DEA $1 million cash if it can prove its charge that pot 
has no medical value.

In 1995, after 30 years of scientific research, editors of the 
respected British medical journal Lancet concluded, "The smoking of 
cannabis, even long term, is not harmful to health." Marijuana's only 
danger is arrest for possession.

If it's not dangerous, why is it prohibited medicine? Because an herb 
cannot be patented, making it a threat to alcohol, nicotine and 
pharmaceutical companies who pay Uncle Sam billions in taxes! Uncle 
is the protector of those death-causing drugs. Marijuana prohibition 
is caused by ignorance, arrogance, politics, greed, power, money, 
lies, perjury and shameful government betrayal against the world's 
safest medicine, and high.

The DEA's own judge Young, after two years of researching medical 
marijuana, stated: "Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the 
safest therapeutically active substances known to man." I have two 
major books on this subject. See Amazon.com.

David R.  Ford

Sonoma, Calif.

Pubdate: Sun, 23 Nov 2008

Source: Hawaii Tribune Herald (Hilo, HI)

Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08.n1031.a10.html
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