Pubdate: Friday, March 13, 1998
Source: Toronto Star (Canada)
Page: A21
Contact:  http://www.thestar.com/

POT'S NOT ONLY THING THAT AFFECTS JUDGEMENT

Re Cannabis 'obvious' threat to health, agency says (Feb 20).  The
World Health Organization is now backtracking after a leak of its own
report showed that marijuana is not the demon weed everyone has been
fooled into thinking it is.

Now WHO narcotic drugs head Tokuo Yoshida says that cannabis "must not
be used because it changes your judgement and thinking."

Alcohol changes your judgement and thinking, as does post-secondary
education, spirituality and, as Parliament has been making clear to us
with their silence on the marijuana issue, election to public office.
Should we ban those things as well?

Timothy J. Meehan Toronto