NO CRIME VICTIMS
Source: York Evening press
Pub date: Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Pub LTE: No crime victims
Web: http://www.thisisyork.co.uk/
Contact: letters@ycp.co.uk
I ADMIRE Aled Jones of Mount Crescent, Bridlington, and T Smith of
Heworth, York, for their idealistic views on the harms of cannabis and their
views we shouldn't ever do anything that might be bad for us (Letters, June 3).
I hope they enjoy their Government-sanctioned cotton wool-lined cells
that they will end up in with that attitude - a cell like that would be a world
free from harm after all!
Back in the real world where the majority of people drink alcohol with
few problems and some people choose to smoke tobacco, to say that cannabis can
do more harm than either of those or the cannabis laws themselves shows
complete ignorance.
I doubt either Mr Jones or Mr Smith have ever even seen cannabis, let
alone actually smoked some to know what it really does.
I can assure them that if it really did cause any real problems to the
average user I wouldn't be able to hold down my 30K per year management job and
wouldn't have been able to work into that position over the past ten years.
No one has ever died from a cannabis overdose and, used sensibly, it is
much safer than alcohol, tobacco, sky diving, driving a car, crossing a street
and many other things we do.
Many tax-paying and otherwise law-abiding people eat or smoke cannabis
as an alternative to alcohol and tobacco. No victim, no crime.
The Technical Officer,
Legalise Cannabis Alliance executive,
Glebe
Road, Norwich.
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Source: York Evening press
Pub date: Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Pub LTE: Open your eyes
Author: Jason Rayner
Web: http://www.thisisyork.co.uk/
Contact: letters@ycp.co.uk
I FEEL sorry for Steve Clements of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance. He
takes the time and trouble to write informed and intelligent letters to the
Evening Press (June 1) and how do the people of York reciprocate?
Well, if the replies on these pages are anything to go by, they don't
actually read or understand his words, they just see the word cannabis and the
Pavlovian "drugs are bad, mmmkay" response is triggered.
An infamous German statesman once said: "How fortunate for leaders
that men don't think" and just look at the trouble he was allowed to
cause.
Please people of York, ignore the propaganda, open your eyes and think
for yourselves.
Jason Rayner,
Wenlock Terrace,
Fulford
Road, York.
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Source: York Evening press
Pub date: Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Pub LTE: Blame tobacco
Author: Dr Robert Melamede
Web: http://www.thisisyork.co.uk/
Contact: letters@ycp.co.uk
In the study examining head and
neck cancer and marijuana use, Aled Jones neglected to mention that there were
only two people in the study who had only used marijuana instead of marijuana
and tobacco. Therefore, this study cannot conclude that marijuana is involved
in these cancers.
Furthermore, when considering lung cancer, recent studies strongly
indicate that it is the nicotine in tobacco that is responsible for
tobacco-induced lung cancer. Marijuana does not contain nicotine.
Additionally, there are numerous studies that show that marijuana has
significant anti-cancer properties.
Dr Robert Melamede,
Associate professor and biology chairman,
University of Colorado,
Colorado Springs,
Colorado, USA.
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