DOPE INHIBITS CANCER FIGHTING

The picture of the monster sized hash pipe accompanying the Irish
Examiner's recent article by Suzanne Harrington may be a little off putting
to some innocent souls, I hope.

I was half expecting an address or contact phone number at the end to help
us get some of this magic stuff. What sillyness. Do we really need to spur
our kids on to consider cannabis? The country is full of drugs and baby
sized gangsters.

Let me clarify a point in the article. The brain receptors mentioned are
there for binding with internally made chemicals, of which external drugs
are but pale analogs. The scientific work to prove this has been done. The
active ingredient of cannabis, THC, gathers mostly in the spleen. The
spleen manufactures little soldiers called T lymphocytes. These little
soldiers fight cancers and other nasty infections.

People who smoke or eat cannabis have fewer of these little cancer
fighters.

Joseph O `Callaghan Jnr,
Main St,
Ballyclough,
Mallow,
Co Cork.