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Current Affairs 2008 - Letters (9 items)
| Nov 8, 2008 | PUB LTE: Street Pot Often Crap Pot "The marijuana was originally thought to have been laced with a more noxious substance, but it turns out high levels of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, are to blame."
Nonsense and balderdash!
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| Oct 4, 2008 | LTE: Pot Smokers Are Uncaring Self-abusers Editor: In response to Travis Erbacher's letter ( The Times, Oct. 1 ), I have this to say: People smoke cannabis to stimulate the brain's emergency production of endorphins, which is triggered by its natural reaction to severe synaptic brain connection damage.
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| Sep 2, 2008 | PUB LTE: Marijuana Laws Have No Validity Re: "Technical breech" of pot law not worth prosecuting: Crown
"There is nothing constitutionally wrong with the CDSA," Conlan said.
Basically, Conlan is admitting that the only thing keeping marijuana prohibition alive is a legal technicality, and not any real validity in the law itself.
"It is still valid because the government says it is valid" is not acceptable. Like a parent saying "Because I said so!" when a child asks "why".
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| Feb 13, 2008 | PUB LTE: Grow-Op Not Like Mayerthorpe Contrary to columnist Iain Hunter's recollections, a botched "grow-op" raid in Surrey that resulted in seized cannabis plants being ruled inadmissible was not analogous to the botched stakeout in Mayerthorpe, Alta. ( "Judges must think police work in a fantasy world," Feb 9 ).
In Mayerthorpe, the grow-op was incidental to the investigation and entry into buildings had been made many hours before the four police officers were fatally ambushed.
The botched raid in Surrey was more like the botched raid of the vessel MV Bakur off the coast of B.C. in 2006, in which 1,630 kilograms of cannabis found onboard was ruled inadmissible due to improper police procedures.
Thankfully, the botched raid in Surrey was not like a botched raid in Abbotsford in 1999, when police burst into a child's birthday party with guns drawn and shot the family dog, or a botched raid in North Vancouver in 1994, when police entered the home of Daniel Possee and shot him dead for brandishing a remote control, or the botched raid in Montreal last year, in which the occupant mistook the police for home invaders and fatally shot police Const. Daniel Tessier, a 42-year-old father of two.
Matthew M. Elrod
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| Jan 8, 2008 | PUB LTE: Pot Full Of Science Re: "Doctors more open to medicinal pot: Study," ( Jan. 7 ) No surprise to me when there is so much science available in regards to medicinal cannabis. I am saddened when I look at 12 states in the U.S. that have legal medicinal cannabis programs now and every one of them has more people signed up to use legal medicinal in one year than Canada has signed up in five years of having a legal medicinal cannabis program in place. I always liked to believe Canada was one of the more compassionate countries. The facts show that is not the case -- sadly.
Keith Fagin
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| Jan 6, 2008 | PUB LTE: Marijuana Ruling Naive Re: Mindelle Jacobs's Friday column. While the oilpatch is cheering because harmless marijuana users can now be booted off the job, no one has considered the unintended side effects of banning off-duty marijuana use. As seen in the U.S., most drug users subjected to testing switched to cocaine and meth from marijuana. Pot stays in your system up to three months, while one can use crack on a Friday night and test clean on Monday. This ruling will do nothing except increase hard drug use in rural workplaces. Anyone who thinks a crack cocaine or meth user is more desirable than a casual marijuana smoker on a work site needs to have their head examined.
Tim Meehan
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| Jan 4, 2008 | PUB LTE: Pot Has Improved Their Lives n 2002 my wife was having up to three epileptic seizures each week. In May of that year she quit using the pharmaceuticals that were failing to prevent the seizures and started using cannabis daily. In 2007, she had only four seizures in total. Video footage of one of her seizures has been on YouTube for almost a year ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV40H_g-NJo ), with over 150,000 views. My wife and I each use between two and 2.5 grams of cannabis every day, inhaling it through a vaporizer, which delivers about four times the medicine as the same amount when smoked. I use cannabis to combat the myriad symptoms of Fibromyalgia. In the past 12 months, I have stopped using my mechanical wheelchair and returned to the stand-up comedy stage.
Using cannabis every three hours has improved both of our lives dramatically. We are healthier, happier and more community-oriented. "Folly" indeed.
Russell Barth, federal medical marijuana licence holder, Ottawa.
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| Jan 3, 2008 | PUB LTE: 'The Folly Of Marijuana Use' 'THE FOLLY OF MARIJUANA USE'
Karen Selick is incredibly naive if she thinks a puppet like Justice Minister Rob Nicholson is going to do the right thing when it comes to marijuana activist Marc Emery. He, like his boss "Steve," answers to the White House.
Russell Barth, Ottawa.
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| Jan 1, 2008 | PUB LTE: Medical Marijuana Grow-ops Okay For Kids Re: "Are the kids all right?" News, Dec. 21, 2007.
You editorial asks "What kind of a parent would subject toddlers to the dangers of living in a marijuana grow operation?"
Why, a parent who has a chronic medical condition and has a licence from Health Canada to set up a so-called "grow-op."
Health Canada licenses these so-called "grow-ops" for critically and chronically ill Canadians from coast to coast to coast, and their regulations say nothing about children.
When set up properly, home indoor gardens are just as safe as hot tubs.
Indoor growing, done properly, is perfectly safe, but a well-crafted propaganda campaign on behalf of anti-marijuana groups ( basically just the police, those experts on medical issues ) seems to have infiltrated the national conversation and the media.
TIM MEEHAN
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