DEFENDING MARIJUANA VENDING MACHINES

Re: Marijuana vending machines - unbelievable (editorial, Jan. 31,
Sentinel-Review)

I am a federal medical marijuana licence holder.

Marijuana is actually safer than most of the junk food currently sold
in vending machines, but it was made illegal almost a century ago,
based on racist lies and supposed "dangers to society" that never
actually existed.

When one considers junk food will kill many times more North Americans
than all illegal drugs combined, a marijuana vending machine hardly
seems that crazy.

Marijuana has never killed anyone and it has dozens of medical benefits - a
recent study from Germany shows how marijuana prevents cancer. Visit:
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/january112008/cancer_treatment_11008.php

Russell Barth

Ottawa