Pubdate: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 Source: Los Angeles Times (CA) Copyright: 2014 Los Angeles Times Contact: http://www.latimes.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/248 Author: Ben Miles Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v14/n241/a08.html CANNABIS CLASH Re "New rules for medical pot," Editorial, March 12 Given research suggesting that marijuana use is far less pernicious than alcohol consumption in terms of social tolls - and despite Brown's off-the-wall comments recently about people who use cannabis somehow dragging society down - I have high hopes that not only will the federal government reclassify medical marijuana out of the complete prohibition of Schedule I, but that California will follow the lead of Colorado and Washington and legalize the recreational use of pot. Ben Miles Huntington Beach - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom