PLENTY OF EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT POT USE

To the editor:

I'd like to take issue with Barry Gerding's statement regarding the medical
effectiveness of cannabis when he says, "The scientific evidence, or lack
of it, is far behind what most people themselves accept to be true or not
true" in his editorial, "Proposed pot laws murky for all", July 9.

In point of fact, dozens of peer reviewed studies now show that cannabis
has profound medical applications.

They include but are not limited to curing or putting into remission two
types of fatal cancers, slowing the progression of multiple sclerosis,
stopping epileptic seizures, relieving asthma attacks, attention deficit
disorder and arthritis, as well as a study showing that whole cannabis is
much more effective than "legal" marinol, a corporate product made from THC
in an oil base.

Interested readers should visit pottv.net, marijuananews.com and the Media
Awareness Project mapinc.org for accurate information on this important issue.

Lee Eisenstein, Watsonville, CA