'MEDICAL' MARIJUANA KILLS LIKE TOBACCO

The Facts are Clear...the issue of Marijuana has become politically
motivated pseudoscience...

- - Marijuana has grown more potent over the decades. A joint now
contains about three times the tar of a cigarette, plus known
cancer-causing carcinogens such as vinyl chloride, dimethynitrosamine,
methylethynitrosamine, benz(a)anthracine, benzo(a)pyrene, as well as
carbon dioxide, ammonia and more than 20 other major toxins. Because
users inhale longer, five joints a week have the impact of a pact of
cigarettes a day. (SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES AND
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE)

- - The dangers of the 'medical' marijuana movement goes beyond the known
cancer threats (such as the head and neck cancers more frequent in
habitual pot-smokers) (SOURCE: JOURNAL: CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY BIOMARKER
AND PREVENTION, 1999). The greater danger for Canada is that the
pro-dope movement encourages tolerance for marijuana and creates
popular support for the use and legalization of cannabis and other
substances.

- - Consider that when Alaska briefly legalized pot, the use of
marijuana and cocaine among adolescents soared more than twice that of
any other U.S. State. In Holland where dope smoking is permitted, use
among 11 to 18 year olds increased 142% from 1990 to 1995; crimes like
aggravated theft and breaking and entering are now 3 to 4 times that
of the U.S.; and Holland now produces 80% of the world's ecstacy.
(SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL DRUG STRATEGY INSTITUTE)

- - Cannabis is no better than codine at controlling pain and because of
its undesireable side effects, "It has no place in mainstream
medicine". (SOURCE: BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL)

- - PET scanning of frequent-use marijuana smokers show lower blood flow
in large regions of the brain, affecting motor coordination function,
cognition, timing, sensory information-processing and attention.
(SOURCE: NEURO REPORT 2000:4)

- - Longitudianl 10-year study of offspring exposed to marijuana in
utero indicated increased hyperactivity, impulsivity, inattention,
delinquency and problem-externalization. (SOURCE: INSTITUTE OF
MEDICINE, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 1999)

Special Interest Groups have been dictating policy affecting our
communities longe enough... The rest of Canada needs to be heard...

IDEAS

INTERNATIONAL DRUG EDUCATION & AWARENESS SYMPOSIUM

presented by INTERNATIONAL DRUG EDUCATION & AWARENESS SOCIETY in
partnership with DRUG FREE AMERICA FOUNATION INC. AND DRUG PREVENTION
NETWORK OF THE AMERICAS

May 1 to May 3, 2002

Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Center

With the use of statistical and documented evidence, IDEAS -2002, the
first of it's kind in Canada, is committed to bringing honesty to the
issue of tolerance for substance abuse.

IDEAS has invited Swedish, Swiss, U.S., Canadian and other
world-leading medical, legal and police experts with impeccable
credentials and esperience in the prevention, treatment, law
enforcement and harm reduction of illicit drugs. For three days, they
will meet with Canadians of influence in a conference intended to
examine Canada's permissive drug policies.

If you have been invited, please reply Early. If you are interested,
please refer online at www.ideas-canada.org