Pubdate: Sat, 20 Nov 1999
Source: Examiner, The (Ireland)
Copyright: Examiner Publications Ltd, 1999
Contact:  http://www.examiner.ie/
Section: Letters
Author: Mairead Scannell, Positive Action for Children

LABOUR GONE TO POT ON DRUGS

Labour wants to start a debate on decriminalising the use of
cannabis.

Have our elected Dail members gone start raving mad?

The rose symbol of Labour is dripping with the blood of the culture of
death they promote.

We can see it as another attempt to drag our youth down the road of
depravity and ruin.

Researchers in the University of Mississippi have collected more than
13,000 technical studies on cannabis which showed that young people
who were regular users developed head and neck cancers. Adolescent pot
smoker tests have shown memory loss persisting for six weeks after
they had stopped daily use.

Mairead Scannell
Positive Action for Children (PACh)
Dublin Road
Fermoy, Co Cork.
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