Pubdate: Tue, 15 Apr 2003
Source: Langley Advance (CN BC)
Copyright: 2003 Lower Mainland Publishing Group Inc.
Contact:  http://www.langleyadvance.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1248
Author: Stan White

MARIJUANA: RANT SHORT OF FACTS

Dear Editor,

Rob Wilton [Legalization is no solution, April 11 Letters to the Editor, 
Langley Advance News] is seriously short of facts.

First, the letter is primarily about a plant. The fact is, most of his 
problems associated with drugs and the plant cannabis would be alleviated 
by re-legalizing them.

And the claim that marijuana (cannabis) has four times the cancer-causing 
tar of cigarettes has one serious flaw, since there has never been one dead 
body to show such cause, while cigarettes produce over 1,000 dead bodies 
per day in the U.S. alone.

Death from cancer due to cannabis use simply doesn't exist. International 
studies indicate cannabis and THC help shrink cancerous tumors and prohibit 
some forms from existing.

At the very minimum, North America must start credible drug law reform by 
re-legalizing cannabis, which isn't even a drug. Caging humans for using 
the plant is uncivilized.

Stan White

Dillon, Colorado, USA
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