Pubdate: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 Source: Whistler Question (CN BC) Copyright: 2008, Whistler Printing & Publishing Ltd. Contact: http://www.whistlerquestion.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1034 Author: Stan White Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n1142/a06.html COLUMNIST HITS THE BULL'S-EYE Paul Ruiterman (Legal drugs the most frequent killers, study finds, Question, Dec. 18) got a bull's-eye exposing one facet of North America's drug problems. Now let's expose what is not legal: cannabis (marijuana). The relatively safe, socially acceptable, God-given plant cannabis hasn't killed anyone in over 5,000 years of documented use, yet it is classified along with heroin and more dangerous than meth or coke. And there's part of the problem. Prohibitionist government's lies, half-truths and propaganda insisting cannabis is so bad has the effect of creating contempt toward warnings of highly addictive and deadly drugs. How many adults try cannabis and realize it's not nearly as harmful as taught in DARE-type government environments and think other substances must not be so bad either, only to become addicted to deadly substances? Stan White Dillon, Colo. - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin