NO STONER JOKES, PLEASE

[Re: "Weed for health," People, News, Oct. 29] Cannabis is a weed, if by
definition a weed is a plant other people don't like.

Cannabis is a sacred herb written about in biblical times and prior
wherever it grew, for those who enjoy history. It is Earth's best
medicine and most industrially versatile plant. Right now it's hard at
work decontaminating the radioactive soil at Chernobyl, and bringing
relief to millions of Canadians.

Some people call it marijuana, pot, grass, whatever else and all for
different reasons. Because it is nature's botanical crowning
achievement after 3.5 million years of R&D, it has a lot of enemies
afraid of competition from a plant harder to eradicate than dandelions
and safer than water.

Bruce Codere