Pubdate: Fri, 10 Jun 2016
Source: Toronto Star (CN ON)
Page: A14
Copyright: 2016 The Toronto Star
Contact:  http://www.thestar.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/456
Author: M. Schooff
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v16/n391/a04.html

MARIJUANA: SCARE TACTICS OR REAL CONCERNS?

Re Seeing through the pot smoke, Letter June 4

Cannabis pop tarts? Oh, please. A classic scare tactic. No business 
sells to kids. What fear mongering and an unrealistic, vivid 
imagination James Wigmore has.

I'd like to know how many kids were admitted to hospitals after 
drinking alcohol, suffering asthma attacks from cigarette smoke and 
overdosing on their parents' prescription drugs?

Medical marijuana can be smoked, eaten in treats or applied as a drop 
of oil on the tongue. Perhaps in future they will have inhalers for 
those who need them. It is used in Israel to calm dementia patients.

Alan Coxwell's letter, on the other hand was right on, informed and 
exactly right. Cannabis kills no one and cannabis "intoxication" with 
medical marijuana just doesn't result in such scenarios.

Medical marijuana hasn't the THC content that makes people high. It 
just helps people with pain, seizures, anxiety and many other 
ailments that would otherwise require much more dangerous drugs.

M. Schooff, Orangeville, Ont.
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