THE TRUTH WE SHOULD BE TELLING OUR CHILDREN

I applaud the government on their medical marijuana announcement. However
Grant Hill raised an important issue.

What about recreational marijuana? Well, what about it? Let's face it,
there are a lot of drugs that are available to teenagers to get a high.
Alcohol, tobacco, ecstasy, LSD, magic mushrooms, marijuana, gasoline, and
glue to name a few. I agree teenagers should not take any drugs, but they
do and of all the drugs currently available to teenagers, marijuana could
be the safest.

Grant Hill made me think of the monkey experiment. Put a group of monkeys
in a room with a chair.

Every time a monkey gets on the chair, spray the whole group with a fire
hose. After a while the monkeys learn not to get on the chair and to keep
their buddies off that chair. What was interesting about this experiment
was with successive generations of monkeys they still kept their buddies
off the chair. They did not know why as they had never been sprayed with
the fire hose, they just knew not to get on that chair because something
dreadful would happen.

Grant Hill is telling us not to get on that chair. Why? He does not know
why, only that is what he has been told.

Prohibition does not work, people will smoke Cannabis whether it is legal
or not. The government has no right to dictate to adults what they can or
can not put into their bodies.

The powers that be do not care if you kill yourself with booze or tobacco.

Why should they care if adults would rather have joint instead of a bottle
of beer? Because the United States of America cares and Canada's
legislators don't have the guts to defy the Americans?

The police care. Without prohibition they would have to deal with real
criminals.

Drug dealers care because their tax-free income would be gone.
Pharmaceuticals companies care because their drug sales would drop by 50%
in some cases.

Cannabis has been used for thousands of years for spiritual and medical use
among our ancestors.

It is a very special herb and it should be treated with respect.

That is the truth we should be telling our children.

Scynthia Ross Caledonia, P.E.I.

(We suspect that Dr. Hill knows a more about the effects of cannabis than
you suggest)