Pubdate: Wed, 05 Oct 2016
Source: Sooke News Mirror (CN BC)
Copyright: 2016 Sooke News Mirror
Contact:  http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2142
Author: Andy Neimers
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v16/n629/a03.html

THERE'S NOTHING NATURAL ABOUT POT

Re: Natural plant shouldn't be illegal (Letters, Sept. 28)

Nice spin, Ralph Hull, but Parsley is also a "natural plant" but
nobody smokes it to get high.

Just as some mushrooms grace our gravies, others will kill you or make
you hallucinate to jump off bridges.

Marijuana in the past five decades has been hybridized to maximize the
degree of intoxication and it is generations away from the natural
weed that grows wild along the fence rows of European and Middle
Eastern farms

And no historian is going to "chuckle" about the current effect of
this gateway drug to more addictive substances, given the Colorado
Highway Patrol's latest statistics on drug impaired driving, since
that state legalized cannabis.

Finally, the belief "stupid laws should be disobeyed" speaks volumes
about those who are promoting a selective abeyance of any of our laws.
Where does this conceit begin or, indeed, end?

Andy Neimers

Sooke
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