FACE SCIENCE FACTS

To the editor:

I read Greg Williams letter on June 24 ("Pot not the problem some say it
is") and I couldn't agree more. It's hard to believe in the year 2001
society still believes American propaganda from the 1930s. The War on Drugs
was established by the first drug czar of the USA and his ridiculous fables
are still believed.

Society needs to open its eyes and face the scientific facts of today.
Marijuana is not something just "hippies" or "white trash" use to get high.
It's something that doctors, lawyers and your neighbours support. Not only
that, it has beneficial, medical uses for all sorts of people including
AIDS, cancer and MS patients.

There are some who choose not to use it because they are in fear of the
law, and for that they suffer. Then there are the others who use it
everyday and they suffer also because they live their lives as criminals
every day.

It's time to allow people to smoke a healing drug that subdues their pain.
Everyone else has done it. It's time for marijuana smokers to come out of
the closet.

Danette Polzin,

Kelowna