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Newshawk: Kirk
Votes: 1
Pubdate: Fri, 09 Mar 2012
Source: East Valley Tribune (AZ)
Copyright: 2012 East Valley Tribune.
Contact: http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/opinion/submit_a_letter/
Website: http://www.eastvalleytribune.com
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2708
Author: Kirk Muse
DUI STORY GETS IT WRONG ABOUT MEDICAL MARIJUANA
I am writing about the March 2 front page story: "Medical marijuana,
prescriptions boost number of DUIs in Mesa." Not only does marijuana
not impair driving ability, perhaps it improves it. I suggest that
the readers Google: "Medical marijuana and highway deaths." Then you
will see that states that have medical marijuana laws have
substantially fewer highway deaths than states that don't.
Marijuana metabolites stay in a person's blood system for up to three
weeks, long after its effects have worn off. How would the readers
feel if they received a DUI two weeks after they consumed a single
glass of wine or bottle of beer?
I am disappointed that the East Valley Tribune would publish such a
story. When the EVTrib was published by Freedom Communications it was
an excellent newspaper. Now it is not.
Kirk Muse
Mesa
MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom
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