Pubdate: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 Source: Victoria Times-Colonist (CN BC) Copyright: 2004 Times Colonist Contact: http://www.canada.com/victoria/timescolonist/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/481 Author: J. McRee Elrod Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n086/a09.html?1229 IF YOU MUST INDULGE, TRY CANNABIS Thank you for Jody Paterson's short and effective call (Jan. 14) for making cannabis legal, pointing out that it is less lethal than either of the legal drugs nicotine or alcohol. She might also have mentioned that cannabis causes less carnage on the roads than alcohol, and less permanent brain damage than sniffing either gasoline or glue. Lives would be saved, and health less compromised, if young people used cannabis rather than more dangerous but legal substances, if indulge they must. J. McRee Elrod, Victoria. - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom