MARIJUANA IS NOT ADDICTIVE, AND DOCTORS SHOULD KNOW THAT

The April 11 Wisconsin State Journal had an article about the medical
marijuana hearings at the state Capitol. What caught my eye was a statement
by Dr. Michael Miller, president of the Dane County Medical Society, who
said legalizing marijuana could lead to more people being addicted to the
drug. Marijuana is not addictive.

The U.S. government has been trying to prove marijuana is addictive for
more than 30 years, and after hundreds of experiments and tests, has
failed. The last big report issued by the Drug Enforcement Administration
again showed marijuana not to be addictive and not to be a gateway drug,
and encouraged the government to look into decriminalization. Drug Czar
Barry McCaffrey, not liking the results of the study, ignored it. And it
seems Dr. Miller also ignores all the previous studies done on marijuana
and addiction, or is more interested in misinformation than science.

Alan Gold, Brooklyn