CANNABIS CAN'T KILL A KID

The Chico E-R reports, "When the trial resumes on Thursday, a UC
Davis Medical Center pediatrician is expected to testify for the
prosecution that the ingestion of marijuana by a child that age could
result in great bodily injury or even death" ("Case centers on how
kid came across pot brownie," Tuesday).

Coma? Death? From cannabis? Perhaps if several bales fell from the
top of the refrigerator, crushing the poor dear. Even an Oroville
jury should laugh out of court anybody making prohibitionist claims
as these. Where are the morgues full of dead kids? Or the wards full
of comatose young cannabis victims?

The prohibition of cannabis has been this country's greatest policy
blunder since slavery.

Jay Bergstrom, Forest Ranch