With cannabis (marijuana) we can feed the hungry with its seed, which coincidentally has the best proportion of fatty acids and proteins of any single source on the planet. We can heal the sick -- the new medicines developed from the plant show promise. Clothe the naked with textiles from its fibres. Help the lame to walk -- just ask health activist Grant Kreiger about his MS. And help the blind to see; in a word, "glaucoma." I don't think any government had a hand in writing that book I read it in. Nor do I think that Health Canada had a hand in the development of the plant. Mark Chenier (You've got high hopes, eh?) [end]
Maybe the school and the authorities are trying to instill the lesson: "The price of democracy is vigilance." It takes events like this to show us how fragile our freedom is and what can happen if we don't protect it. Perhaps the school authorities will be changing into their jackboots after the grad? Mark Chenier, Montreal [end]
MEDICAL MARIJUANA, a smokescreen? What are you smoking? Far be it from me to wish ill on anyone, but I can only hope that you or one of your loved ones is affected by a condition that can be helped by cannabis. Then we shall see how soon your idiotic off the cuff remarks are changed. Mark Chenier (Medical use of marijuana is already practised and likely legally inevitable.) [end]
The times, places and name changes, corruption and greed are static. Brainless editors who are unable to do anything but parrot the status quo and kowtow to perceived authority would be better not showing their ignorance for all the world to see. Mark Chenier (We disagree on the pervasiveness of the systemic crisis in drugs. The war isn't important, the dependency issue is.) [end]
Mark Chenier (We feel great compassion for sick people; we just don't think pot should be legalized outright.) [end]
