Pubdate: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 Source: Langley Advance (CN BC) Copyright: 2011 Lower Mainland Publishing Group Inc. Contact: http://www.langleyadvance.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1248 Author: Travis Erbacher DISPENSARY RAID SADISTIC Dear Editor, I like to think that people want to do what's best and are merely ignorant about marijuana. But I'm beginning to think some people are either so brainwashed by decades of propaganda, are willfully ignorant for political convenience, or are morally irregular people. There is something sadistic and borderline psychopathic about stealing medicine from sick people. Randy Caine has done everything right. He has worked as closely with the RCMP and local authorities as he possibly can, and is doing it for ill people. He is providing a service that Health Canada has failed to provide, despite multiple court rulings stating that they must provide access to marijuana as medicine or risk violating Charter rights. The dispensary system is more convenient for ill people and provides the type of symptom-specific strain selection needed to treat conditions as wide-ranging as migraine headaches, MS, cancer, and bipolar disorder. I hope the RCMP and the politicians who support these raids feel proud of themselves. They continue to lock up the young people and Native peoples of this country disproportionately, and continue to raid dispensaries to steal medicine from ill people. All that is to "save us" from a substance that was initially banned based on racist fear-mongering before we understood any of the science behind it. Every "danger" initially assumed, from - gasp - your white daughter dating a nonwhite man (an actual argument in favour of prohibition at the time), to the gateway drug theory, to physical addiction, has been debunked. But thank god the police are stealing it from cancer patients. I feel much safer. I know I was at risk of a cancer patient stealing my car stereo for pot money any day now. Travis Erbacher Langley - --- MAP posted-by: Richard R Smith Jr.