DON'T IGNORE FACTS

To the Editor:

With respect to the emotional letter from the teacher in Nelson,
"Drug Crusaders Listen Up," what dignity results from closing one's
eyes and ears to the facts about marijuana?

Certainly cannabinoids have indisputable anticarcinogenic,
neuroprotective and pain-relieving effects. Furthermore, since
anandamide is a naturally occurring substance in all human brains
that is very similar to marijuana's active ingredient THC, most
people get high every day, whether they admit it or not.

In fact, none of the anecdotal examples listed in the letter approach
the harm associated with deadly alcohol, tobacco or pharmaceutical
poisons that are legally peddled, taxed and consumed without risk of
incarceration absent some other crime.

Alcohol prohibition resulted in (an) drunk school children and pot
prohibition has similarly proven to increase youthful
experimentation. So why should responsible cannabis consumers be
deprived access by those who so carefully ignore such self evident truths?

Crusaders, indeed.

Jose Melendez

Communications Director

Concerned Citizens Coalition to Criminalize Prohibition

DeLand, FL