Pubdate: Sat, 10 Dec 2016
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
Copyright: 2016 The Globe and Mail Company
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/168
Author: James G. Wigmore
Page: F2

COMMERCIALIZING POT IS THE ISSUE

Re Panel To Tell Ottawa To Monitor Legal Pot (Dec. 8): The problems
with marijuana will not result from its legalization but from the
commercialization of this drug. A recent study of Grade 6 to 8
students (a high risk population) in southern California showed that
students who were exposed to medical marijuana ads were twice as
likely to intend to use cannabis than those who were not.

I hope we will not repeat the tragic mistake that occurred with
cigarettes in the 1950s when only the "healthy" effects of its use was
promoted by Big Tobacco to increase consumption.

James G. Wigmore, forensic toxicologist, Toronto
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