Pubdate: Thu, 16 Sep 2010
Source: Chico Enterprise-Record (CA)
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Author: Robert Galia
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n737/a06.html

IT'S ALL ABOUT FREEDOM OF CHOICE

Regarding the Sept. 8 letter, "Dude, where's your point?": Although 
the writer's clever rebuttal made absolutely no sense to me (or to 
anyone else I showed it to), and although he actually forgot what he 
wanted to say (duh, dude, he might have wanted to edit that part out) 
I feel compelled to respond.

When I say that cannabis is a healthy substitute for unhealthy and 
addictive narcotics, it is not me being "stunningly contradictive." 
What is contradictive is the writer's claim that the whole medi-pot 
movement is a lie. It is contradictive to scientific fact. Who are we 
supposed to believe, him, or the thousands of doctors who are now 
recommending its amazing potential as a preventive, a curative and 
yes, a pain-masking remedy.

I still stand by my point that in comparison to alcohol, pot is less 
disruptive and less deadly. Since everyone knows that cannabis has 
never directly killed anyone, everyone else could see the obvious sarcasm.

I may or may not have been on pot when I wrote my last letter, but at 
least I was on this planet, and I resent the writer's inference that 
I am some kind of smoked-out moron. I am simply a medi-pot advocate 
defending basic freedom of choice when it comes to what medicine we 
are allowed to put into your own body.

- -Robert Galia, Chico
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MAP posted-by: Keith Brilhart