Pubdate: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 Source: New Zealand Herald (New Zealand) Copyright: 2016 New Zealand Herald Contact: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/300 Author: Gary Hollis NON-MEDICAL MARIJUANA To use the term marijuana as in being legalised, is deceptive and dangerous. One's use of medicinal marijuana to relieve pain is fully justifiable. The smoking of marijuana as a weed sold on the street is not. The latter, even with small usage, kills brain cells, is linked to deaths on the road, long term damage to the lungs and it accentuates depression from those already suffering from it. Any literature being promoted by the press needs to make a very clear distinction between the two. Gary Hollis, Mellons Bay. - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom