Pubdate: Sat, 18 Jul 2015
Source: Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB)
Copyright: 2015 Winnipeg Free Press
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Author: El Hancock
Page: A14

FIGHT FOG WITH FACTS

Re: Winnipeg marijuana dispensary closed due to complaint from 
Vancouver (July 15). Fifteen per cent THC is the average strength of 
marijuana. Australians are growing the strongest strain at 40 per 
cent, hardly four times stronger, as Pamela McColl of Smart 
Approaches to Marijuana would have us believe. She leaves the 
impression that all marijuana is four times stronger than in her 
smoking days, when, in fact, it is a small percentage.

If you zero in on the very few negatives of marijuana, the 40 per 
cent strain in particular, and dismiss the myriad of positives, you 
are doing a major disservice to the public, unlike the service that 
Glenn Price provides. The independent researchers, not the 
brain-washing Big Pharma people, have proven the benefits of marijuana use.

Marijuana, being nature's own, cannot be patented. Therefore, Big 
Pharma successfully lobbies against it. Making lobbying illegal in 
this country is long past due.

Should the day come when I need medical marijuana, I would hope to be 
able to obtain it over the counter.

El Hancock

Langley, B.C.
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