Pubdate: Sat, 4 Mar 2000
Source: Spokesman-Review (WA)
Copyright: 2000 Cowles Publishing Company
Contact:  P.O. Box 2160 Spokane, WA 99210
Fax: (509) 459-5482
Website: http://www.spokane.net/news.asp
Author: John Morgan Duty II

POT BOOSTS HEART RISKS TO OVER-40S

Can you say...JUNK SCIENCE? First they said pot causes men to go bald. Then
they said it causes impotence.

Later on they said it would make men grow breasts. BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!
Now men will have heart attacks too. The government has told so many lies in
it's zeal to convince the country that marijuana is, as Donna Shalala put
it," Just plain bad" that I doubt that anyone would see this junk science as
anything more than a good laugh.

This so-called scientist has put forth a relational finding NOT a causal
finding. It's like saying that everyone who has worn black shoes will die of
a heart attack. It wouldn't take very long to find large numbers of people
who died of heart failure while wearing black shoes thus proving the
relationship. Sorry guys. You have cried wolf one time too many. I don't
believe anything you say.

John Morgan Duty II,
Spokane, WA
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