Thank you for printing Anna Pike's experience with pot smoking on the Opinion Page of Sunday's Province. She respects the use of cannabis for those with chronic pain or in palliative care with incurable ailments, but tells of the effects on her life of smoking marijuana for 22 years. She describes her life as living in a "paranoid fog" then shares the joy, improved memory, energy and love of life that she has now after butting out in November. [continues 57 words]