MARIJUANA CAUSES CANCER AND SHOULD BE TOTALLY ILLEGAL

Wonderful thanks to Nicholas Grube and Detective (Sgt.) Steve Morris
for their long-awaited straight talk about smoked marijuana.

As Detective Morris pointed out ("Funds to Fight Pot Crops Doubled,"
March 13, Page 2), there is no legitimiate medical use for smoked
marijuana. This stupid, stinking street drug is illegal in this
country for some very good reasons.

Damage to the personality from smoking pot is well-documented.
Prescribing smoked marijuana for cancer patients is ludicrous; smoked
pot is three times as carcinogenic (in case you didn't go to medical
school, that means it causes cancer) as nicotine cigarettes. This
certainly doesn't constitute medical care--unless you hate the
patient so much that you wish to hasten their demise.

Claims of relief provided by smoked marijuana need to be examined
more carefully. Federal drug enforcement officers tell me that most
smokers of high THC marijuana have been regular users for at least
three years before obtaining a "medical" users card. Most of these
addicts have not seen a legitimate medical doctor in at least six years.

The ax I'm grinding is a big one; I'm one of the people who got
cancer from a neighbor's smoked marijuana. I lived in a small
apartment where I couldn't get away from it. Sixteen years after
diagnosis, thanks to a diet free of sugar, corn syrup, alcoholic
drinks and extracts and a move to the clean air of Gasquet, I'm still
alive and ticking. And the pot-smoking neighbor is dead and buried.

From research on cancer and other diseases by my charity, Citizens
for an Alcohol Free Environment, I have concluded: There is no
medical use for marijuana.

Jane Christmas

Gasquet