Pubdate: Sun, 03 Apr 2016
Source: Tennessean, The (Nashville, TN)
Copyright: 2016 The Tennessean
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Author: Bob Alley

MARIJUANA MISINFORMATION

Re: "Cannabis prohibition does more harm than good," by Cecily Friday 
Shamim, and "Patients deserve access to medical marijuana," by 
Allison Barker Watson, Sunday Insight, March 27.

Please be more objective and honest in your selection of guest 
editorial writers than your March 27 "Point/Counterpoint," which 
contained two letters from pot lobbyists who used emotion rather than 
science to encourage our society toward addiction and brain damage.

Google: "Harvard Pot Study" to learn of the long-term damage in 
casual pot users to "...the nucleus accumbens and the amygdala - key 
regions for emotion and motivation, and associated with addiction."

Medical science has access to drugs which provide more relief with 
less damage than does pot. This Harvard/Northwestern/Mass General 
study is certainly not "...deceit and misinformation" as an op-ed claims.

Reason and honesty are crucial in our public discourse.

Bob Alley, Nashville 37215
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