Pubdate: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 Source: Globe and Mail (Canada) Copyright: 2002, The Globe and Mail Company Contact: http://www.globeandmail.ca/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/168 Author: Alan Randell MAD ABOUT MARIJUANA Victoria -- Re The Flin Flon Flip-Flop (Sept. 2): It was such a pleasure to see someone as angry about our Health Minster's gutless and heartless attitude toward medical marijuana as I am. Clinical trials are surely only needed for laboratory-concocted substances that have never before been ingested by humans. Marijuana has been smoked or otherwise ingested by Homo sapiens for thousands of years. Alan Randell - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom