MEDICAL MARIJUANA A DRAG FOR PRESCOTT, PV

EDITOR:

A poorly informed electorate has passed Proposition 203. Now, an
equally ignorant group of city officials is busily providing for the
growth and distribution of a narcotic substance called medical marijuana.

No official standards for marijuana's purity, potency or dosage forms
have ever existed. It is the only botanical medicine predominately
administered by inhalation of its combustion products (smoking).

Among conclusions by expert testimony before a U.S. Congressional
Committee, I list three verbatim:

1. THC (Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), the major psychoactive
substance in Cannabis, tends to accumulate in the brain, sex glands
and other fatty tissues of the body in much the same manner DDT is stored.

2. There is evidence that marijuana may cause irreversible damage to
the brain, including actual brain atrophy, when used daily for several years.

3. Chronic cannabis use results in deterioration of mental
functioning, pathological forms of thinking resembling paranoia, a
progressive and chronic passivity and lack of motivation.

What a noble enterprise our city council has embarked upon.

Benjamin Souler

Prescott