LETTER OF THE WEEK

POT ISN'T DANGEROUS

By David R. Ford

I'm adding a few words regarding Chief Mahuna's comments about the
voter-approved pot initiative.

The government has not been able to prove one toxicity related death,
ever, from marijuana. Compare that to alcohol, nicotine and
pharmaceutical products that together cause the death of more than
600,000 Americans annually! The government continues to claim that
marijuana has no medical value, and consequently it is a controlled
Schedule I drug, along with heroin, too dangerous to prescribe! That
makes as much sense as having Dracula guard our blood bank. I'm
offering the DEA $1 million cash if it can prove its charge that pot
has no medical value.

In 1995, after 30 years of scientific research, editors of the
respected British medical journal Lancet concluded, "The smoking of
cannabis, even long term, is not harmful to health." Marijuana's only
danger is arrest for possession.

If it's not dangerous, why is it prohibited medicine? Because an herb
cannot be patented, making it a threat to alcohol, nicotine and
pharmaceutical companies who pay Uncle Sam billions in taxes! Uncle
is the protector of those death-causing drugs. Marijuana prohibition
is caused by ignorance, arrogance, politics, greed, power, money,
lies, perjury and shameful government betrayal against the world's
safest medicine, and high.

The DEA's own judge Young, after two years of researching medical
marijuana, stated: "Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the
safest therapeutically active substances known to man." I have two
major books on this subject. See Amazon.com.

David R. Ford

Sonoma, Calif.

Pubdate: Sun, 23 Nov 2008

Source: Hawaii Tribune Herald (Hilo, HI)

Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08.n1031.a10.html