Pubdate: Sat, 14 Dec 2013
Source: San Jose Mercury News (CA)
Copyright: 2013 San Jose Mercury News
Contact:  http://www.mercurynews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/390
Author: Max Steinke

MARIJUANA REGULATIONS WILL DEPRIVE PATIENTS

If the San Jose City Council is setting rules limiting the areas were 
marijuana can be sold to protect the children of San Jose, it is 
looking at the wrong drug. Per the CDC, teenage use of alcohol is 
almost double that of marijuana. And while the danger of marijuana 
use is low, alcohol use is not. Many news stories about fights, rapes 
and traffic deaths indicate that alcohol use was a factor. The major 
effect of this law will be to make it more difficult for AIDS, cancer 
and other patients to get the legal medicine they depend on to get 
through their day.

Max Steinke

San Jose
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