Pubdate: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 Source: Surrey Leader (CN BC) Copyright: 2010 Surrey Leader Contact: http://www.surreyleader.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1236 Author: Tony Smith Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n187/a01.html FREE INSPECTIONS TO PREVENT FIRES How would anyone like their personal medical records along with drugs prescribed to be public information? Health Canada encourages medical marijuana for many conditions where it performs often better than prescription pharmacuticals. U.S. President Barack Obama, when visiting his dying grandmother in Hawaii, stated that he observed elderly patientss using both marijuana and opiate painkillers and he couldn't tell the difference. Locally, if fires are a real risk, why doesn't the city offer free inspections without judgement to rectify electrical problems and prevent possible fires? Finally, I suspect if the fire department targeted elderly live-alones they could make sure they had safe cooking practices and fire extinguishers and prevent far more fires than grow-ops cause. I am a member of Law Enforcement Against Drug Prohibition (LEAP). We are a 30,000-strong organization of law enforcement personnel who all believe that while drugs are not good, it is the "war on drugs" which is causing most of the casualties. Tony Smith Langley - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom