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To: Reagan Man
Thanks for the stats.

The deaths due to heart problems are particularly interesting, but I find the deaths due to traffic accidents and poor judgement to be irrelevent for comparison to the figures in the article in this post.

While these accidents are tragic, they do not speak to the issue of toxic effects of marijuanna on the body. Accidents that happen while persons are taking any type medicines are dealt with through DWI laws.

Still, unless I have a heart condition, marijuanna should be perfectly safe for me to take to ease my glacoma if it should become legal.

Do you have objections to the medical use of marijuanna?
48 posted on 01/11/2002 11:54:23 AM PST by Chess
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To: Chess
Do you have objections to the medical use of marijuanna?

To be honest with you, I go back and forth between objecting and not objecting. I have sympathy for people who get relief from smoking marijuana, but my sympathy wanes when I hear about individuals abusing the system in order to smoke marijuana, strictly for purposes of getting high. In addition, according to what I've read on the subject of medical marijuana use, there are prescription pills that deliver a more concentrated form of THC to the patient. Theres actually no reason to smoke marijuana, not when the accepted medical standard is ingesting THC in pill form. The desire for some patients to smoke the weed and not take the pill, is more psychosomatic then anything else.

50 posted on 01/11/2002 12:27:17 PM PST by Reagan Man
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