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US CA: PUB LTE: Effort To Demonize Cannabis Doesn't Measure Up

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URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v12/n244/a01.html
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Pubdate: Thu, 26 Apr 2012
Source: Times-Herald, The (Vallejo, CA)
Copyright: 2012 The Times-Herald
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/993
Author: Dave Lane
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v12/n228/a06.html

EFFORT TO DEMONIZE CANNABIS DOESN'T MEASURE UP

I don't know what Lisa Jackson's ( "Marijuana: Think about it", April 19 motivation is to continue to demonize cannabis, but all the evidence she cites are correlational and not causal statistics.

There is a high correlation between drinking milk as a child and becoming president, or becoming a hardened criminal.  It does not mean drinking milk causes either result any more than the studies she cites demonstrate that cannabis causes any problems at all.

Dave Lane

Santa Cruz


MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom

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