Pubdate: Thu, 01 Jun 2006
Source: Columbian, The (WA)
Copyright: 2006 The Columbian Publishing Co.
Contact:  http://www.columbian.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/92
Author: Larry Little
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal)

ALLOW MEDICAL MARIJUANA

It's simply disgraceful that the Food and Drug Administration is the 
federal government's agency trusted to provide accurate advice with 
respect to the medications submitted by drug companies, and to 
guarantee their safety for consumption prior to them being placed on 
grocery or pharmacy shelves.

Bad things happen to good people. Reactions to prescription drugs 
kill thousands of people every year I mean the drugs that the 
companies advertise the heaviest, and the ones that are ineffective.

The pharmaceutical industry corrupts the part of Congress that Jack 
Abramoff and Tom Delay didn't, and some owe their seats to these 
professional drug pushers who don't want to compete with medical 
marijuana because they would lose.

Consider how many very expensive anti-anxiety, anti-depression and 
anti-nausea medications being pushed by the pharmaceutical industries 
would disappear from the market, replaced with a cheap drug, easily 
produced, decidedly superior and not in control by the drug companies 
a drug affectionately called pot by users. Immediately, there would 
be the $70 billion annual budget the Drug Enforcement Administration 
is using to harass medical marijuana patients that could be used to 
feed the homeless and give 40 million uninsured children health insurance.

Larry Little

Vancouver
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