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PRINT MEDIA CONTINUES TO BESMIRCH THE MOVEMENT TO DECLASSIFY MARIJUANA

There is a raft of bills in the House of Representatives to declassify Marijuana (Cannabis). Currently forty-two states have legalized some form than science. The use of herbs including of cannabis use. So what is preventing the cannabis has been around for 5000 years. The Senate from following up on these issues? It scientific research has been going on since the is hard to enlist support for these bills when 1940’s. newspapers, TV commentators all besmirch Cuthbertson informs us the secretary of this miraculous plant. Alex Berenson, a liberal transportation is charged with identifying journalist formally working for the NYT, reliable methods for detecting cannabisenumerated all the negative things about impaired driving. Unfortunately since cannabis cannabis in his book titled: Tell Your Children: research is illegal in the US, who will come The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, cannabis today is the difference between prohibit selling or distributing cannabis. up with this scientific method. Maybe Spain and Violence. having a light beer in 1995 and drinking a Children under eighteen are then forced to Germany the UK or Israel will do the research.

No one is dying of an overdose of cannabis pint of vodka today”. I ingest a high potency purchase cannabis from smoke shops or gas It is frustrating to see in the print media like they are dying of opiate or alcohol cannabis at bedtime to relieve chronic stations where synthetic cannabinoids (K2/ unfounded myths and misinterpretation of poisoning. School age children are not getting insomnia and it is in no way the same as spice) is legally sold. research on the use of cannabis for both their brains fried. Illegal growers are popping drinking a pint of vodka. Where do they come The CDC states on their website that, recreational and medicinal use. How do we up because when states legalize cannabis the up with this nonsense. “synthetic cannabinoids are part of a group get more support to move the needle on taxes are close to 40% of the sale price. Legal Journalists like to blame overdoses as the of drugs called new psychoactive substances declassification in the next congressional dispensaries do not want illegal growers. It reason children under 18 have a 72 percent (NPS). NPS are unregulated mind-altering congress. We need a more focused attack. cuts into their profits. increase in admissions to the ER. There are no substances that have become newly available Let us enter the din of the enemy. How do

Charlotte Cuthbertson reports in The Epoch facts to support this outrageous belief. There on the market and are intended to produce we expose the research the NIH already has. Times, a weekly conservative newspaper, the is no information in the article examining if the same effects as illegal drugs”. They are How do we expose the millions of dollars demand for recreational products high in THC the children were drinking alcohol, taking popular because children under 18 are more the NIH has given to Israel to research the contrasts with medical cannabis users who cannabis not from a licensed dispensary or likely to be educated in our schools on safe sex medicinal use of cannabis. How do we use cannabis for symptom relief. There is no what other conditions the children have. It is a but mentioning safe use of cannabis is taboo. convince Republicans and the President of the difference between the two. Often high doses known scientific fact that cannabis potentiates Medicinal users grow more than the legal hypocrisy of the current policy. We need to are required for seizures or treatment for opiates, alcohol, and other pharmaceuticals. limit of twelve cannabis plants in their homes stop preaching to the choir if we want change. cancers. Access to tested, safe, controlled cannabis because the state has legalized growing, What do you think we should do?

Cuthbertson quotes the Surgeon General is not available in many towns due to the but the cities and counties forbid it. Adams Email Ruth Hill at info@ruthahillrn.com Jerome Adams as saying, “the potency of disparate county and city jurisdictions that mistakenly believes policy is moving faster with your comments.