Pubdate: Wed, 09 Aug 2017
Source: North Bay Nugget (CN ON)
Copyright: 2017 North Bay Nugget
Contact: http://www.nugget.ca/letters
Website: http://www.nugget.ca/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2226
Author: Jeff Meyers
Page: A4

CANADIANS SHOULD 'EMBRACE THE WEED'

The following is in response to the letter Pot legalization
questionable as drug deaths spike which appeared July 31.

To the editor:

Letter writer Simon Guillet rails against marijuana and conflates it
with opioids and heroin. He obviously is not aware that marijuana has
not caused an overdose death in recorded history.

It's the "safest therapeutic substance known to man … safer than most
foods," wrote DEA judge Francis Young after hearing hundreds of hours
of testimony.

U.S. states that have legalized weed have had significant drops in
opioid use and overdoses.

So don't fear the weed, Canada, embrace it. You'll be much better
off.

Jeff Meyers

Westlake Village, Calif.
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