SECRET AGENDA TO ENCOURAGE CANNABIS USE

WHEN THE worldwide campaign to induce youth to start smoking cannabis began
25-plus years ago, its objective, one suspects, was to do with dulling the
minds of children with disregard for their health.

The intensity and persistence of the propaganda campaign suggest the
long-term stakes are high.

One would expect the professions to be infiltrated with people willing to
initiate unbalanced research, whose results would gain credibility if
published in prestigious journals.

The absence of balance was shown recently when a long-term study showed that
youth who were regular cannabis smokers showed signs of lung damage.

An obedient cannabis propagandist rushed into print in a mindless attempt to
trash the findings.

Legalising cannabis will increase consumption, which appears to be the
objective of the exercise.

Dr Ivan Harper, Queenstown