REGARDING THE DANGERS OF MARIJUANA

To the Editor;

It was interesting to see the full page article on the dangers of marijuana
in your paper Monday morning. Reading it I noticed that nearly all the
information was provided by NIDA, the government agency that has been
providing the medical arguments in support of prohibition for years. There
was no mention of the studies done by countless organizations around the
world, many government sponsored, that have caused the international
community to move in the direction of decriminalizing marijuana. Holland,
Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Canada, Mexico, the U.K,
France, even Ukraine either have legalized personal possession of marijuana
or are on the verge of doing so. The US press however, still allows such
propaganda about the dangers of marijuana to go unchallenged far too often.

After the Canadian government recently approved a system to provide
marijuana for those who need it for medical reasons the editor of the
Canadian Medical Journal, Dr. John Hoey, stated that "Our view is that the
government should probably take a little bit more bold step and
decriminalize it. It turns out that it is really quite an innocuous drug..."

Nicolas Eyle, executive director

ReconsiDer: forum on drug policy

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