NEW MARIJUANA STUDY HAS OBVIOUS FLAWS

There's another war that seems to never end - the drug war. The July
27 Register carried an article regarding a recent marijuana study
published in the prestigious medical journal the Lancet ("Study Links
Pot Use To High Risk of Psychosis").

The story says scientists have now found that the use of pot causes
long-term psychosis. The researchers admit that other factors might be
involved, and they are not sure marijuana is causing the problem.

Who would have thought being labeled a criminal by the rest of society
would cause long-term psychosis? In the last paragraph of the article,
it says several of the researchers were paid by drug companies to
attend meetings related to marijuana. I wonder if they had a motive in
trying to make marijuana look bad, considering it's a top competitor
against their pharmaceutical poisons?

Carl Olsen

Des Moines