RHF wrote:

UA,
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So remind me again how Marijuana is a 'harmless' Natual Herb.
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What about the often cited 'fact' that Marijuana makes people mellow ?
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Sad to hear that the Nation of Canada has
suffered this lost of these fine RCMP Offficers.
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May God comfort their Families and Loved Ones - Amen !
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~ RHF
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I think marijuana and other drug trafficking are major problems now for most
countries and the organised crime that is involved knows no limits - this
my be biker gangs, Asian, S. American or "traditional" organised crime -
whatever. These people must be stomped on. Hard.

Addiction is another issue, and I think this is a medical issue, which
should be treated. That said, I really wish courts could offer a choice:
go to jail or go to a mandatory locked treatment centre. Especially for
kids and teens. Follow-up with spot drug testing and failure means back in
the treatment centre lock-up. I want to see addicts forced to deal with
the issue via treatment and not just put in jail. They just come out and
do that same things again.

I've never said marijuana is harmless and never will. Even though there are
efforts to legalise small quantity possession or for use a medication, it
is not a medicine or a herb, it is a potent psycho-active drug. For pain,
for glaucoma, for nausea related to chemotherapy, it is not a good medicine
choice IMHO. If there are chemicals in pot (the so called cannibinoids)
that treat these problems, put them into a pill or a asthma like inhaler
(which I understand is available in Europe) and remove the THC. God knows
I'd rather take an aspirin than eat some aspen tree bark.