Pubdate: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 Source: Union, The (Grass Valley, CA) Copyright: 2011 The Union Contact: http://apps.theunion.com/utils/forms/lettertoeditor/ Website: http://www.theunion.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/957 Author: Joanne Crouch MARIJUANA NOT A HARMLESS HERB Kathi Lipscomb states in a letter to the editor that she was in Amsterdam and while walking in the city, someone asked her why she was there when the best cannabis in the world is grown in California! Am I the only Californian who is ashamed of this fact? It is just wrong when we're admired for growing and promoting an illegal narcotic. I spoke with some friends today and we agreed that there are legitimate, ill people in need of pain medications, but 95 percent of the users are not legitimate! Any one can get marijuana or a "script." If it were prescribed ONLY to proven, HONESTLY ill people, it would not be the gigantic statewide problem that it is. I believe that the people who write to you insisting that marijuana is just a harmless herb and wonderful end-all pain reliever ... are the very people who sit on their couch every night getting stoned. Joanne Crouch Penn Valley - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom