Pubdate: Sat, 10 Aug 2013
Source: Toronto Star (CN ON)
Copyright: 2013 The Toronto Star
Contact:  http://www.thestar.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/456
Author: Frank G. Sterle

POT: TO LEGALIZE OR NOT

I've travelled down the cannabis-consumption rocky road and learned 
about its effect on (my) health the extremely difficult way.

However, I must admit that research findings regarding pot's effect 
on health that "reveal" a benign or, contrarily, insidious nature of 
cannabis consumption make me instinctually wonder: Who commissioned 
the research?

As cynical as it may sound, I'm one who believes that knowing the 
interests of the entity who has commissioned the research quite often 
reveal much about the research 'findings' to come.

The commissioner, through the news media, will typically propagate 
terms like "independently commissioned," but such doesn't necessarily 
translate into 100 per cent accuracy; questions asked and/or research 
methodology can be quite manipulative.

Frank G. Sterle, Jr., White Rock, B.C.
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