Pubdate: Wed,  5 Feb 2003
Source: Maui News, The (HI)
Copyright: 2003 The Maui News
Contact:  http://www.mauinews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2259
Author: Larry Seguin
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n167/a11.html
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm (Decrim/Legalization)

STUDY SHOWS PSYCHOACTIVE INGREDIENT LOWER THAN CLAIMED 

I must take issue with Jerome Kellner's statement "marijuana is 1,400
percent stronger nowadays" (Letters, Feb. 1).

That whopper of a statistic conflicts with a federally funded investigation
of marijuana samples confiscated by law enforcement over the past two
decades.

Published in the January 2000 Journal of Forensic Science, that study found
the THC content (the psychoactive component) had only doubled to 4.2 percent
from about the 2 percent found in samples between 1980 and 1997.

The propagandized Web site of the Drug Enforcement Agency only goes as high
as 12.32 percent ("The Cannabis Situation in the United States," December
1999).

Mr. Kellner, The Maui News does a great service to the community by printing
anti-drug war letters. They are factual!

Larry Seguin

Lisbon, N.Y.
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