Pubdate: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 Source: Post-Standard, The (Syracuse, NY) Copyright: 2013 Advance Publications Contact: http://www.syracuse.com/mailforms/opinion/index.ssf Website: http://www.syracuse.com/poststandard/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/686 Author: Betty Pringle WOULD YOU WANT A DOC ON MARIJUANA OPERATING? To the Editor: I am responding to Dr. Gene Tinelli's Dec. 31 letter regarding marijuana. Would you want a brain surgeon or any surgeon to operate on you while high on the drug? How about your dentist, your lawyer defending you in court, the judge making serious decisions concerning your life, teachers teaching your children, school bus drivers, accountant handling your money, bank tellers, nurses, contractors, electricians and plumbers working on your home, police and firefighters? The list goes on and on. On the other hand, medical use of marijuana to alleviate serious pain would certainly benefit mankind. Betty Pringle Manlius - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom