Pubdate: Fri, 15 Sep 2017
Source: London Free Press (CN ON)
Copyright: 2017 The London Free Press
Contact: http://www.lfpress.com/letters
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/243
Author: Sally Taylor
Page: A7

DISMAYED BY POT FIX

Regarding the article Fix for pot's impact on teen brain (Sept.
13).

I read with shock and dismay that a team of Western University
researchers is boasting the discovery of a potential way to reverse
marijuana's long-term psychiatric effects on teens' brains. The amount
of money and time devoted to reversing the effects of a currently
illegal act is appalling to me. Don't legalize a product that has been
scientifically proven to harm the developing brain.

What is even more frightening is that the solution lies in the use of
pharmaceutical drugs. The only indication that something positive may
come out of Steven Laviolette's study (although it seems more like an
afterthought) is the suggestion that his team may now look at aiding
legitimate disorders such as depression and anxiety, mental illnesses
that exist without cause.

Sally Taylor

Dorchester
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