CANADIAN MEDIA NEEDS TO GIVE UP ON REEFER MADNESS

Re: Not Everyone's High on Pot's Rising Status, March 28 The News.

It is not surprising - though it is still disgusting and shameful - to
see how the media still misrepresents "science" in an effort to
demonize marijuana and its users. But as a federal medical marijuana
license holder who is also married to one, I find it particularly
distressing and hurtful.

Suzanne Archie, a psychiatrist at Joseph's Healthcare, defines
"moderate use by adults" as "once or twice a month."

My wife and I use a volcano vaporizer to deliver our cannabis, every
three hours. We each use several grams each day. This device heats up
the cannabis but doesn't burn it, so the user gets four times the
amount of medicine as the same amount smoked. If cannabis, or THC,
were in any way "dangerous," my wife and I would be dead or insane
many times over.

Ms. Archie "also acknowledges pot has some benefits at low
levels."

Recent science out of Germany shows how cannabinoids stimulate the
body's production of TIMP-1, which helps healthy cells resist cancer
invasion.

This might explain why chronic pot smokers have lower - not higher -
rates of cancer than tobacco smokers as a recent California study showed.

As for pot having a higher THC level, this is a good thing. THC is a
therapeutic agent, not a toxin, so higher strength pot is actually
safer.

Also, the stronger the pot, the less one has to use to get the desired
effect, so it is even safer still.

There is no "toxic level" with cannabis, and to even use the word
"toxic" in regards to cannabis is scientifically inaccurate, which
just shows how biased these so-called drug "experts" really are. One
day, hopefully the media and the "addiction specialist" racket will
learn to give up on reefer madness. This article suggests that that
day is a long way off.

Russell Barth

Federal Medical Marijuana License Holder

Nepean