Pubdate: Fri, 03 Feb 2012
Source: Goldstream Gazette (Victoria, CN BC)
Copyright: 2012 Black Press
Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/vvfJCciY
Website: http://www.goldstreamgazette.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1291
Author: J. McRee Elrod
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v12/n053/a11.html

TREAT POT SMOKING LIKE CIGARETTES

Re: Metchosin weighs in on legalizing pot, News, Jan. 18, 2012.

The move of several municipalities to urge the legalization of 
cannabis will, I hope, have some influence of national policy, or at 
least police enforcement.

It is common sense to deal with cannabis as we deal with nicotine, 
since it is both less harmful than nicotine, and has in some cases 
medical benefits.

Both these reasons have personal significance for me. I lost my elder 
son to a nicotine related heart attack, and I now have a medical 
condition which cannabis would ameliorate. (My doctor, while 
approving of the use of medical cannabis, is forbidden by his 
malpractice insurance to prescribe it.)

As has been remarked, a young man will go to prison with a BA in 
stupidity, and come out with an MA in criminality, gained at taxpayer expense.

The federal omnibus crime bill will be a social and economic 
disaster. At least cannabis should be removed from that bill.

J. McRee Elrod

Metchosin
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