MARIJUANA: RANT SHORT OF FACTS

Dear Editor,

Rob Wilton [Legalization is no solution, April 11 Letters to the Editor,
Langley Advance News] is seriously short of facts.

First, the letter is primarily about a plant. The fact is, most of his
problems associated with drugs and the plant cannabis would be alleviated
by re-legalizing them.

And the claim that marijuana (cannabis) has four times the cancer-causing
tar of cigarettes has one serious flaw, since there has never been one dead
body to show such cause, while cigarettes produce over 1,000 dead bodies
per day in the U.S. alone.

Death from cancer due to cannabis use simply doesn't exist. International
studies indicate cannabis and THC help shrink cancerous tumors and prohibit
some forms from existing.

At the very minimum, North America must start credible drug law reform by
re-legalizing cannabis, which isn't even a drug. Caging humans for using
the plant is uncivilized.

Stan White

Dillon, Colorado, USA