DRUG POLICY WEBSITE

As you know from my last ad in The Dickinson Press, I don't use marijuana
in any form; however, I support legalization of marijuana for medicinal and
industrial purposes. My convictions are based on years of research. But I
don't want you to take my word for it, consider what others say. Famed
newsman Hugh Downs recently wrote that some believe the production of
marijuana (hemp) by farmers could save the U.S. economy. "It is estimated
that methane and methanol production alone from hemp grown as biomass could
replace 90% of the world's energy needs. If they are right it is is not
good news for oil interests and could account for the continuation of
marijuana prohibition. The claim is that the threat hemp posed to natural
resource companies back in the thirties accounts for its original ban." For
more on Downs' stand go to my website and learn how Ford Motor Company once
used marijuana to make methanal, a cheap, clean renewable fuel.

Did you know that American farmers and their sons who grew marijuana during
World War II were exempt from the draft? The U.S. Department of Agriculture
called the program "Hemp for Victory." Read more about this at my web site:
http://dpfnd.org/

Marijuana also has medicinal uses. From the mid 1880s to 1900, a marijuana
extract was the second most prescribed drug in the United States!

Well-known conservative Richard Brookhiser, Senior Editor of the NationaI
Review, started to use marijuana to curb the effects of chemotherapy
treatments after a bout with cancer. He wrote, "Marijuana gives healthy
people an appetite and prevents people who are nauseated from throwing up.
None of my doctors or nurses at New York University Medical Center or
Memorial Sloan-Kettering discouraged me from doing this. They had all had
patients who had used marijuana to fight nausea and who had reported good
results. I had good results, too. Because of the marijuana my last two
courses of chemotherapy were almost nausea-free. There was only one
problem. I had to become a criminal to do this."

Lester Grinspoon, M.D. and a former Harvard University professor, in his
testimony before Congress said, "Clinical experience suggests that
(marijuana) is helpful for patients with severe nausea and vomiting,
arthritis, glaucoma, muscle spasms, premenstrual syndrome, seizure
disorders, the AIDS weight loss syndrome, asthma, fibromyalgia, Tourette's
syndrome, and depression..." Find out more about the medicinal uses of
marijuana on my website: http://dpfnd.org/

Every parent of school age children should turn to my website at
http://dpfnd.org/ and read "A Mother's Advice about Drugs" by Marsha
Rosenbaum. This letter from a mother to her son puts the drug issue into
proper perspective.

At the web site, you'll read how marijuana was successfully used as a
medicine by several patients including Dan Shapiro, a doctor and faculty
member of a respected medical school who suffered nausea following
chemotherapy treatments.

Want more? Read what famed newsman Walter Cronkite says about marijuana.
Read what Edward Ellison, former head of Scotland Yard's anti-drug squad,
says and read the views of noted Nobel prize winning economist Milton Friedman.

Put simply, believe the propaganda that's put out and stay in the dark
about the marijuana issue or, go to my website and read the truth.

Tom Bauman

Dickinson