Pubdate: Fri, 27 Sep 2002
Source: Oshawa This Week (CN ON)
Copyright: 2002 Oshawa This Week
Contact:  http://www.durhamregion.com/dr/community/oshawa/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1767
Author: Jamie Dart

MARIJUANA HELPS THOSE IN PAIN

To the editor: Re: 'Snuffing out medicinal marijuana is the wrong move,' 
Dr. Gifford-Jones column of Sept. 15.

It is very good to see articles such as this one. If people were more 
educated on marijuana they would realized it is actually less harmful and 
addictive than most legal drugs (alcohol, caffeine, nicotine).

The government has no sensible reason to keep marijuana illegal - 
especially for medical purposes. If they want more proof of how beneficial 
it actually is they just need to ask any one of the thousands of people 
across Canada who use it - make that need it - to stop their pain.

Jamie Dart Oshawa
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