SCENT OF HYPOCRISY

Dear Editor:

Re: "Be careful about medical pot use, MD warns" (March 12).

Dr. Henry Haddad may discover his parochial attitude of "reefer madness"
has garnered himself an unexpected adversary.

Wasn't it Christ who warned of a particular spiritual disease that afflicts
many; hypocrisy is it?

He compared this mental disorder to leaven; an agent of spiritual
fermentation that fills the individual with intoxicating levels of
self-delusion, fraud and hubris. (Luke 12:1)

Cannabis is safer than aspirin, for God's sake. Recreational use is a form
of self-medication; whether it relieves stress, depression or plain
boredom, besides the myriad of other palliative actions documented over the
centuries.

For the sake of anyone who may be confused and deluded by the
misinformation of "leaven-head syndrome," I suggest a dosage of facts and
truth.

Here's a good start: Does the Bible Support the Drug War? by R. Givens;
www.angelfire.com/la/kaylee/bible.html

David d'Apollonia, Dartmouth