LITTLE MARIJUANA PROPAGANDA GOES A LONG WAY

A little propaganda about marijuana to go with my prescription? How quaint.
Do you think Health Canada will include this passage from a major drug
policy work:

Canadian Senate Report on Marijuana Policy, Volume One, circa 2002, page
165, "In total, based on all the data from the research and the testimony
heard regarding the effects and consequences of cannabis use, the committee
concludes that the state of knowledge supports the belief that, for the
vast majority of recreational users, cannabis use presents no harmful
consequences for physical, psychological or social well-being in either the
short or the long term." Why not include that passage my Canadian friends?

You state Health Canada has been long opposed to marijuana used as
medicine. Uh, Dana Cooper, I know you are isolated and confused up there in
Medicine Hat, but it was Health Canada under Allan Rock that started this
program. It is Anne McLellan who is trying to play the stalling game and to
kill the program. It is false conservatives who have done this consistently
throughout the past 40 years.

I wonder how long it will take to finish this manual? Long enough for their
appeal to be heard? This situation is sickening. I hope the courts slap
Health Canada -- and slap them hard.

Consider this: A superior way to consume cannabis has been around for many
years. It is called vaporization. People who oppose cannabis use
consistently ignore vaporization as a consumption technique.

Basically, the vaporizer heats the cannabis material to about 190 degrees,
which allows the cannabinoids to come off the plant material in a vapor
without combusting the plant material and creating undesired irritants.

In fact, I just read a good article tonight addressing this form of
consuming cannabis. It was titled Legalize medical pot in N.Y. and was
written by Richard Brookhiser. It can be found online at
www.nydailynews.com/07-20-2003/news/story/102193p-92506c.html

If you go Googling on marijuana and vaporization, you will find much
material on this topic.

Health Canada is now being run by a fraud. Allan Rock called her on her
lies when she stated Health Canada never intended to distribute the
marijuana produced in Flin Flon. I am depending on your courts to do what
false conservatives cannot handle, which is to deal with the truth and take
the sick and dying off of this battlefield.

Live long and prosper, Dana of Medicine Hat. We, the outsiders, will do you
no harm. We come in peace to educate you because you apparently cannot read
scholarly works in drug policy on your own. You are welcome.

Matthew Hulett

Brick, N.J.