REFORM MEDICAL MARIJUANA ORDINANCE

Regarding your story on baby boomers and sex: Years ago a doctor I
worked with explained that the active ingredient in marijuana, THC,
attaches itself to fat cells in the brain and glands of the body. The
brain gets fuzzy, and gland function does too. Hence, after a time on
THC, women loose their sex drive and men become impotent.

It's worse with younger users. THC interferes with the maturation
process, which completes at about 25 years. I suspect this may have
much to do with other gland functions such as insulin production in
diabetes and problems with the thyroid glands. This lack of glandular
function is increasing in baby boomers. It seems that the
irresponsible '70s have caught up with them.

MediCal pays for Viagra, so clients are now asking why taxpayers don't
pay for their "pot" as well. There are irresponsible doctors out there
who make their living giving out marijuana letters to patients they
have never seen and will only see again in a year when they come back
for a renewal. Readers should e-mail or write the Medical Board of
California at www.mbc.ca.gov, or 2005 Evergreen St., Suite 1200,
Sacramento, CA 95815 to censure these doctors.

Instead of building "pot houses," we should focus on rewriting the
medical marijuana law to allow these recommendations only to patients
who have chronic or terminal illness, and only after other legal
medications have been appropriately tried and failed.

- - Jan Harrison, Oroville