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Drug is lethal

10:00am Monday 19th November 2007

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So marijuana is not a significant threat to public health, safety, or personal ambition (No harm in it, Letters, November 10)?

But wait. Cannabis actually contains 50 per cent more cancer-causing carcinogens than tobacco - making it one very mean drug.

Before anyone complains, my source is a recent study by the acclaimed British Lung Foundation.

Surely, then, the crux of the issue is that cannabis is the kiss of death for any society; it's ultra lethal.

Aled Jones, Mount Crescent, Bridlington, East Yorkshire.

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steve, york says...
11:28am Mon 19 Nov 07

Total and utter rubbish Aled.

You don't have to smoke cannabis.

Nobody denies smoking is bad for you, hardly worthy of being locked up for 2 years though is it?

I think you'll also find that cannabis actually has some significant anti-cancer properties and that the research you quote has been discredited quite substantially.

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TooRad, york says...
12:51pm Mon 19 Nov 07

Another logical, well-argued piece of reasoning from Aled Jones. Full of incontrovertable facts and figures, well-qualified statements, and not at all based on lies, conjecture and ignorant personal opinion.
Well done Aled! A victory for halfwits everywhere!

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Redundant Pronoun, Northwest of York says...
12:55pm Mon 19 Nov 07

Try eating it. No threat to anything there, in fact it's one of the new wonder drugs to help treat MS.
It's been shown to help with nerve pain, spasticity and best news of all, to slow down the progression rate.
Still Aled, don't let the grey areas into your own peculiar black-or-white way of seeing the world.
Have you ever met Heather? I think you'd get on really well with her.

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andyb, york says...
8:21pm Mon 19 Nov 07

If people want to smoke cannabis, they will. The Genie,in this case, is well and truly out of the bottle. Anyway, I never heard of anybody going on the rampage after using it, unlike alcohol.

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