MARIJUANA IS NOT A REAL MEDICINE

Re: "Medical marijuana should get OK" Dec. 1, Our View.

There is a reason that there is no pharmaceutical that does what the
marijuana smoker gets. It is because the tetrahydrocabinol (THC) is only
oil soluble and our body system operates on a water system. With all the
experiments it has not been possible to produce a substance that can be
dose related.

Why don't we face the facts that the relief that can be obtained from
ingesting THC is medically available. This issue is not about a medical
cure. The pot smokers want their pot.

Physically, the pot smoker who smokes three joints per day stands a greater
risk to their lungs than the tobacco user smoking three packs a day. In
order to get the effect desired the smoke from a joint is hotter and is
inhaled deeper.

This is just a smoke screen for the legalization of marijuana. Just look
where the pressure comes from. Is it the medical community? No it is those
areas where they want to smoke pot.

To become legal it would have to go through the same research and testing
as Vioxx, Celebrex and all that other prescription drugs do. The harmful
side effects would be three pages of fine print. And we know how unreliable
that is.

I have worked for over forty years with addicted people. I have never had
one person that had kicked their habit that had anything positive to say of
their marijuana experience physically, emotionally or psychologically.

Frank Reynolds

Springfield