Pubdate: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 Source: Peak, The (CN BC) Copyright: 2002 Peak Publications Society Contact: http://www.peak.sfu.ca/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/775 Author: Wayne Phillips Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada) ANDERS ANGERS It is obvious to any that have read the Senate Summary Report that Mark Ander hasn't read it, plain and simple. What Ander thinks he knows about cannabis is so flawed that one would be hard pressed to take anything this person says on any subject as credible. He does, however, take prohibitionist lunacy to new heights. Ander's statement that "marijuana smokers get lung cancer almost as often as their nicotine-addicted counterparts" is standard prohibitionist fabrication. Nothing unusual. Prominent U.S. researcher John P. Morgan of City University of New York Medical School told the Senate Committee that smoking marijuana does not seem to cause lung cancer. "We are some 30 to 40 years into this marijuana epidemic and still have not seen evidence of pulmonary cancer in marijuana smokers" (Canadian Press June 11, 2001). Ander's notion that "the over-all death rate is relatively low precisely because marijuana usage is relatively low" is also typical of prohibitionist nonsense. For Homer Simpson. The Senate Report tells us that 30 per cent of the population (12 to 64 years old) has used cannabis at least once, approximately two million Canadians over age 18 have used cannabis during the previous 12 months, approximately 600,000 have used it during the past month, and approximately 100,000 use it daily. But then... then his brand of "reefer madness" shifts into loopy, bigtime! Ander demonstrates exactly how delusional prohibitionist paranoia is when he goes on about tobacco companies lacing existing tobacco brands with subliminal levels of marijuana! Should you encounter this individual on the street, make no eye contact... just back away ever so slowly. Ander is seriously in need of clinical help! Wayne Phillips - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom