Pubdate: Sat, 06 Feb 2016
Source: Wichita Eagle (KS)
Copyright: 2016 The Wichita Eagle
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/680
Author: Mike Mawhirter
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v16/n066/a03.html
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v16/n066/a04.html

REALLY THAT BENEFICIAL?

Regarding "God-given plant" and "Medical benefits" (Feb. 3 Letters to 
the Editor): I'm not sure that medical cannabis has all the healing 
properties mentioned. At best, it probably is a symptomatic reliever 
for most mentioned ailments. I feel that if it were as beneficial as 
some think, the medical arts would have been using it for a long 
time, as they have cocaine and other narcotics. As for not causing 
any deaths medically for 5,000 years: I know of nothing that can make 
that claim, much less cannabis.

It may be a God-given plant, but so is poison ivy, and I think I'll 
not smoke that anytime soon.

Mike Mawhirter, Derby
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