Pubdate: Tue, 26 Jan 2016
Source: Wichita Eagle (KS)
Copyright: 2016 The Wichita Eagle
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Author: Peter Goico

THE NEW SNAKE OIL

Move over, snake oil. There is a new miracle tonic - cannabis oil.

Got aches? Got pains? Are you feeling too sober? Cannabis can cure 
all that ails you, including glaucoma, cancer, Ebola, epilepsy, the 
inability to see imaginary colors and more.

Never mind that the drug companies want nothing to do with it  we all 
know that big pharmaceutical companies conspire to avoid making 
profits off of important cures. Never mind that the Food and Drug 
Administration has never been able to find that cannabis cures 
anything  a bunch of potheads arbitrarily claimed online that 
cannabis does, so we know it must be true.

Side effects include stupidity, driving-related injury or death, 
addiction, a ruined life due to impaired judgment, and temptation to 
rob friends and family members to get the next fix.

Perhaps the cruelest side effect is false hope given to people 
desperate to rid themselves of debilitating, life-threatening 
diseases. Don't worry  by the time they find out, marijuana will 
already be legal and they will have outlived their usefulness to the 
cause. Who cares what happens to them then?

Peter Goico, Wichita
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