Pubdate: Wed, 04 Mar 2009
Source: Kirkland Reporter (WA)
Copyright: 2009 Sound Publishing
Contact:  http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/east_king/kir/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4930
Author: David Wall

MANY PROFIT FROM KEEPING POT ILLEGAL

Under federal law, marijuana is classified as a Schedule 1 drug, 
meaning it has no medical value and lacks any safe level of use; 
Washington State, among others, allows for medical marijuana; nobody 
has ever died from a marijuana overdose, whether illicit or 
prescribed; federal law allows Marinol, a pharmaceutical product that 
is available through prescription and is a synthetic (chemically 
manufactured) version of THC, the natural, God-blessed element in marijuana.

Sadly, Big Pharma, the DEA, prison builders, violent gangs and others 
profit by keeping marijuana illegal, yet there is more available 
today than ever before. How many must die and how many lives must be 
ruined before this absurd prohibition is lifted? No doubt many more.

David Wall, Kirkland
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