Steeb, Rick 1/1/1997 - 31/12/2024
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1 US UT: PUB LTE: Up In SmokeThu, 28 Dec 2006
Source:Salt Lake City Weekly (UT) Author:Steeb, Rick Area:Utah Lines:36 Added:01/02/2007

I have one quibble with Ben Fulton's column ["Speed Limit," Note From the Editor, Dec. 21, City Weekly] regarding cannabis compared with tobacco: Asthma is a qualifying disease under California's Compassionate Use Act.

Marijuana is "darned hard on your lungs?" Hardly. This boomer has enjoyed it often, since 1968. Please see the latest UC/Tashkin study for evidence that smoking cannabis does not cause and may even prevent cancer. That same study found conclusive evidence of tobacco's carcinogenic effects.

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2 US NC: PUB LTE: Medicinal Benefits Unjustly WithheldWed, 05 Apr 2006
Source:Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) Author:Steeb, Rick Area:North Carolina Lines:32 Added:04/05/2006

In his recent letter ["Making Sense of Medical Marijuana," March 15], Bob Niewoehner mentions losing his mother to breast cancer, and he despairs at marijuana's medicinal benefits being unjustly withheld.

Put cannabis+tumor into your favorite search engine and ponder: How many cancer patients have been sacrificed since 1974 to preserve prohibition?

Reading Mr. Niewoehner's letter brought a tear and reminded me of my own mother's tortuous decline and death due to Alzheimer's. She never had the benefit of cannabis' potential relief (search cannabis +Alzheimer's).

Cannabis prohibition is of foul root [with] devastating effects -- completely without merit. Try these additional search strings if you have any doubts: ... "Shafer Commission"; "Francis L. Young."

- -- Rick Steeb

San Jose, CA

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3 US CA: PUB LTE: The People's Will on Pot, Its Use and the LawsWed, 25 Jan 2006
Source:San Diego Union Tribune (CA) Author:Steeb, Rick Area:California Lines:32 Added:01/25/2006

In "Who's buying pot from dispensaries?" (Letters, Jan. 21), Robert Brown bemoans "illegal drug distribution" of medicinal marijuana in neighborhoods. I suggest he go and "notice the traffic" at any liquor store and ponder reality.

As a glaucoma patient who frequents cannabis dispensaries, I have no outwardly visible handicaps to assure "concerned citizens" that I "deserve permission" to buy cannabis. Besides, perfectly healthy caretakers often visit dispensaries to get medicine for patients suffering agonies I wouldn't wish upon Osama bin Laden.

Yes, "marijuana" use and possession remain illegal under federal law, which is outrageous and unjust. Let's make tyranny illegal instead.

Rick Steeb

San Jose

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4 US NV: PUB LTE: Cut The Red Tape Around Medical PotWed, 25 May 2005
Source:Las Vegas City Life (NV) Author:Steeb, Rick Area:Nevada Lines:55 Added:05/26/2005

Despite Nevada's permitting medicinal cannabis use, the few heroic people actually willing to provide medicinal cannabis face more bureaucratic red tape than brothel operators ["High and Dry," May 19].

A similar problem exists here in California, where terrified city councils are rampantly passing bans and moratoriums blocking new dispensaries.

As a glaucoma patient and cannabis user since 1968, I can personally attest to the therapeutic benefits of both the herb AND its legalization. But despite decisive margins of public support, somehow the actual dispensing of medical cannabis is too often seen as a major public risk or as "sending the wrong message to the children."

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5 US TX: PUB LTE: The Truth Must OvercomeFri, 20 May 2005
Source:Austin Chronicle (TX) Author:Steeb, Rick Area:Texas Lines:50 Added:05/20/2005

Dear Editor,

Re: "Weed Watch: Walters Propaganda Won't Hold Water," by Jordan Smith [News, May 20].

Kids using marijuana, much less the potentially deadly alternatives, are certainly a problem to be dealt with, preferably by their own parents. The governmental obsession with and gross exaggeration of the hazards of cannabis are bad public policy.

In the simplistic logic of the prohibitionists, all cannabis use is abuse. The fact that marijuana is (thankfully) our nation's most popular "illicit drug" makes it the disproportionate target of propaganda and enforcement efforts.

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