Pubdate: Fri, 23 Dec 2011
Source: Vail Daily (CO)
Copyright: 2011 Vail Daily
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3233
Author: Stan White
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v11/n725/a10.html

'FOR-PROFIT' POT CLINIC SIMPLY IS CAPITALISM

It's commendable that Kraige Kinney (Letter: "Just say no to 
for-profit pot shops," Dec. 21) voted for citizens with serious 
health issues to use the plant cannabis (marijuana) medicinally.

Many citizens with severe pain (for example) are able to choose using 
or already have been using significantly more dangerous and extremely 
addictive narcotics with many side effects (including possible death) 
that leave them feeling like zombies and unable to function or work.

Cannabis has historically also been used for muscle spasms, nausea 
and many other ailments with far less side effects than 
pharmaceutical drugs. Citizens deserve the option to use the natural 
and safer God-given plant for those medical conditions.

Citizens should be allowed to make a profit for cultivating and 
providing cannabis and more so since the federal government threatens 
to cage them.

Alternative pharmaceutical medications involve profit at every step 
of the equation. Is there any medication in existence that does not 
involve profit; why discriminate against cannabis?

Stan White

Dillon
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