LETTER OF THE WEEK

MARIJUANA LAWS HAVE NO VALIDITY

By Russell Barth

Editor:

Re: "Technical breech" of pot law not worth prosecuting: Crown

"There is nothing constitutionally wrong with the CDSA," Conlan said.

Basically, Conlan is admitting that the only thing keeping marijuana
prohibition alive is a legal technicality, and not any real validity
in the law itself.

"It is still valid because the government says it is valid" is not
acceptable. Like a parent saying "Because I said so!" when a child asks "why".

When one considers that recent science out of Germany shows how
cannabinoids stimulate the body's production of TIMP-1, which helps
healthy cells resist cancer invasion (
http://drugsense.org/url/U4wnQAq8 ), the government's prohibition
seems downright criminal!

Besides that, if you accept that the government has any say at all as
to what you can and cannot put into your own body, then you must
accept their ownership. That means, the government owns you -- like
a pet, or slave, or livestock -- and that you have only the rights
that they grant.

If you accept that, then you deserve to have no rights at all.

Russell Barth

federally licensed medical marijuana user

Patients Against Ignorance and Discrimination on Cannabis

Pubdate: Tue, 02 Sep 2008

Source: Sun Times, The (Owen Sound, CN ON)

Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n782/a07.html