Pubdate: Sat, 17 May 2003
Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB)
Copyright: 2003, Canoe Limited Partnership.
Contact:  http://www.fyiedmonton.com/htdocs/edmsun.shtml
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/135
Author: Frank G. Sterle, Jr.
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk

MARIJUANA CAN CAUSE PERMANENT DAMAGE

BY PROMOTING its decriminalization or outright legalization, pro-pot 
activists are basically legitimizing marijuana's consumption and implying 
that it's basically harmless. As a former pot consumer myself, I - along 
with most of my former pot-consumption peers who I've bumped into these 
last half-dozen years - can attest to the permanent damage that marijuana 
can cause to a person's body and mind. If pro-pot people propose legalizing 
marijuana for practical reasons - for instance, less pressure on 
already-overburdened law-enforcement and justice systems - that's a clear 
and perhaps practical motive. But there's simply way too much of the 
media-propagated garbage out there telling our impressionable youth that 
pot is harmless.

Frank G. Sterle, Jr.

(An interesting perspective.)
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