Pubdate: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 Source: Kenyon Leader (MN) Contact: 2014 Kenyon Leader Website: http://www.thekenyonleader.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/5497 Author: Stan White Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v14/n260/a04.html CANNABIS A SAFE OPTION To the editor, The Kenyon Leader should give an opposing position to Kevin Sabet's discredited claims (Myths Of Legalizing Medicinal Marijuana, Mar. 13, 2014), which are too many to list. Even the Reefer Madness government subsidized prohibitionists quit using the historically discredited "gateway theory" decades ago. Cannabis (marijuana) is less addictive than coffee: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Addictive_Properties#sthash.P8dh79U1.dpbs. Cannabis has been documented medicinally for over 5,000 years without a single death; that's safety on a Biblical scale. The plant is safer than every pharmaceutical drug it replaces. Colorado citizens have used cannabis medicinally with protection from overzealous government for over a decade and continue to use it while cannabis has completely become re-legalized and the sky hasn't fallen in. Truthfully, Stan White - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom