Pubdate: Thu, 16 Nov 2006
Source: Nanaimo News Bulletin (CN BC)
Copyright: 2006, BC Newspaper Group
Contact:  http://www.nanaimobulletin.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/948
Author: Stan White
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n1526/a02.html
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n1527/a06.html
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n1527/a08.html

WRITER MISSED HOW POT HELPS MENTAL HEALTH

To the Editor,

Galina Pembroke (Pot report ignores medicinal value, News Bulletin, 
Nov. 9) is correct pointing out how cannabis isn't proven to cause 
psychosis and how cannabis users may be predisposed, but is incorrect 
stating, "Like smoking tobacco, smoking pot harms the lungs."

Tobacco kills over 1,000 North Americans daily, yet in over 5,000 
years of documented use, there is not one single dead body to prove 
cannabis harms the lungs like tobacco.

Missing is how doctors and medical journals have shown cannabis helps 
mental health, and people can often end pharmaceutical drug use or 
lessen its use, and reduces side effects.

Stan White

Dillon, Colorado
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