QUESTIONABLE SCIENCE

Dear Editor:

Unfortunately, people in law enforcement are not trained in science
and medicine, yet they make believe that they are. Colleen Yea sounds
as though she was scientifically trained by the American DEA. They
manage to ignore all the science that does not fit their profitable
agenda. There is a lot of peer reviewed, good science that
demonstrates important medicinal properties for cannabinoids that
include cancer prevention, neuro-protection and pain relief. The
ludicrous argument that marijuana is made up of hundreds of chemicals
ignores the fact that so is the food that she eats. Big deal.

Bob Melamede, Ph.D

Assistant Research Professor

Dept. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

University of Vermont