SCIENCE SHOWS POT PLAYS HAVOC WITH BRAINS WHY LEGALIZE IT?

The pot pushing club of Vancouver mayors has now reached four. British
Columbians should firmly reject their entreaties to legalize marijuana.

They wish to enhance its availability on the grounds that it will
bring revenue to the city and is harmless. Just say no. It is not a
harmless agent. Our brain research laboratory at UBC published a
series of papers in the 1970s specifically demonstrating brain damage
from cannabis. I was invited to testify before a U.S. congressional
committee on our findings. Three of my scientists ignored those
findings. As marijuana users, they became incapable of designing and
executing experiments. They were the only three I have lost in more
than 50 years of managing young neuroscientists.

I have never been able to understand why anybody would be so foolish
as to monkey with the biochemistry of their most precious organ, their brain.

Drug addiction is contagious. One user seduces another. As Vancouver
mayors have found, Vancouver has a terrible problem dealing with the
wasted lives of the addicted community. But that problem will soon
spread to drug-free communities in this province and across Canada if
the mayors' advice is followed.

Criminals make money by addicting the foolish. It may be too late for
the older generation who think exposure to marijuana is fine, but the
younger generation could eliminate the problem.

Just say no to marijuana and no to being surrounded by users. They
create nothing but problems for themselves and others.

Dr. Patrick McGeer,

University of B.C.