Pubdate: Mon, 09 Jul 2001
Source: Calgary Sun, The (CN AB)
Copyright: 2001 The Calgary Sun
Contact:  http://www.fyicalgary.com/calsun.shtml
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/67
Author: Tom Trottier
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor; headline by newshawk

MARIJUANA DOESN'T MOW THE LAWN EITHER

So doctors have found that marijuana is no better than codeine for easing 
pain. It probably doesn't mow the lawn, either. The major medical use for 
marijuana is improving the appetite and spirit of people nauseated by 
cancer or AIDS. We have good drugs for pain. We don't have good drugs to 
cure nausea. Except marijuana. So even if marijuana doesn't mow the lawn, 
it should still be used to improve the lives of sick people. Maybe, 
someday, it will be used legally to improve the lives of well people too.

Tom Trottier

(It makes you high Tom; it doesn't make your life better.)
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