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Letter to the Editor!
Posted by FoM on March 28, 1999 at 06:33:36 PT
This is a letter to the editor of the SF Gate!
Source: SF Gate
 While the Institute of Medicine's report is promising, it neglects to mention that ingested (eaten) marijuana causes none of the lung damage typically associated with smoking. Instead, the institute takes the politically safe approach by focusing on the plant's active ingredients. This almost assures that if medical marijuana is accepted, patients would need to buy expensive, patented substitutes, while the plant itself would remain illegal. 
Patients choosing to bypass the pharmaceutical monopoly and grow their own would still face the usual risk of imprisonment, forfeiture, etc. -- all for a drug that is safer than aspi rin. It remains to be seen whether policy makers have the courage to accept the marijuana plant the way nature intended, which, to this day has yet to cause a single human fatality. Why do patients need to wait for a drug when the plant itself will help?
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