Pubdate: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 Source: Dispatch, The (NC) Copyright: 2011 Stan White Contact: http://www.the-dispatch.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1583 Author: Stan White Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v11/n099/a11.html MARIJUANA DOESN'T KILL Editor: Jackie Heninger is misinformed (letter: "Don't legalize marijuana," Feb. 10). According to science, cannabis (marijuana) does not kill brain cells. The murders at the Mexican/American border are not due to cannabis but rather cannabis prohibition, the same way the original prohibition with alcohol caused high murder rates, which diminished for 10 years after its repeal. Cannabis does not damage lungs more than cigarettes or cause cancer. In over 5,000 years of documented use, there still is not one single dead body to show cannabis has ever caused cancer while cigarettes kill over 1,000 Americans daily. Cannabis prohibition and extermination is luciferous and based on lies, half-truths and propaganda. Heninger is simply parroting prohibitionist government "Reefer Madness" lies. And speaking of hell, that may be where people go who support caging responsible humans for using what God says is good on literally the very first page of the Bible. Stan White Dillon, Colo. - --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D