Pubdate: Wed, 04 Apr 2001
Source: Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel (FL)
Copyright: 2001 Sun-Sentinel Company
Contact:  http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/159
Author: John E. English, Springfield, OR

LEGALIZATION SCHEME

Weedotherapy is an apt description of "medicinal" marijuana. Not only is 
self-medication never wise, marijuana is a dangerous, delusional drug.

Scientific studies show that 40 percent of people think placebos help them. 
Further, if one has read the druggies' own words for 15 years, as I have, 
one would know that promoting marijuana as a "medicine" is part of a 
three-tiered attack to legalize all "recreational" drugs (druggies admit 
that to each other). (The other two tiers: Claiming the war on drugs has 
failed and claiming that hemp is the silver bullet.)

A cartel of legalizers bankrolled by George Soros is (state-by-state) 
circumventing federal laws -- including those preventing quackery -- a 
dangerous precedent.

The "medicinal" aspects within marijuana if synthesized in regular doses 
may be beneficial to some people and it warrants further study, but giving 
in to the scam is not acceptable. The fate of America's children hangs in 
the balance.
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