Pubdate: Sun, 18 Jan 2009
Source: Chico Enterprise-Record (CA)
Copyright: 2009 Chico Enterprise-Record
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Author: Jay Bergstrom
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n041/a02.html

CANNABIS CAN'T KILL A KID

The Chico E-R reports, "When the trial resumes on Thursday, a UC 
Davis Medical Center pediatrician is expected to testify for the 
prosecution that the ingestion of marijuana by a child that age could 
result in great bodily injury or even death" ("Case centers on how 
kid came across pot brownie," Tuesday).

Coma? Death? From cannabis? Perhaps if several bales fell from the 
top of the refrigerator, crushing the poor dear. Even an Oroville 
jury should laugh out of court anybody making prohibitionist claims 
as these. Where are the morgues full of dead kids? Or the wards full 
of comatose young cannabis victims?

The prohibition of cannabis has been this country's greatest policy 
blunder since slavery.

Jay Bergstrom, Forest Ranch
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MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom