Pubdate: Fri, 09 May 2003
Source: Langley Advance (CN BC)
Copyright: 2003 Lower Mainland Publishing Group Inc.
Contact:  http://www.langleyadvance.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1248
Author: Larry Seguin

MARIJUANA: DEMONIZED INGREDIENT USEFUL

Dear Editor,

Thanks for publishing Harry Fisher's outstanding letter [Better deemed 
worse, April 29 Letters to the Editor, Langley Advance News].

Mr. Fisher excellently points out the fraudulent accusations of Frank G. 
Sterle, Jr., connecting cannabis to schizophrenia [Harmless assumptions 
legitimized, April 25 Letters, Advance News].

If cannabis is so dangerous, why did the U.S. federal Food and Drug 
Administration approve Delta-9-THC, the active and most demonized 
ingredient in marijuana, as Marinol in 1986?

Why did the DEA reschedule Marinol in 1999 from a schedule 1 to schedule 3 
(a safe and medically accepted pharmaceutical)?

In my thirty-five years of using cannabis I have only had one problem: 
dealing with fear-mongering individuals like Mr. Sterle who feed fear with 
their inaccurate dishonesty.

Larry Seguin

Lisbon, New York, USA
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