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| Battle over medical marijuana makes no sense |
| By thenewstribune.com |
| Published: 04/26/2011 |
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As a retired law enforcement officer and spokesman for LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition), I follow the medical marijuana with interest. LEAP is an international organization comprised of thousands of police chiefs, sheriffs, police officers, deputies, prosecutors, judges, federal drug and FBI agents, prison wardens and corrections officers who believe the so-called War on Drugs is a dismal failure and self-defeating policy which has thus far cost thousands of lives and a trillion dollars with nothing positive to show for it. We believe the only practical and humane way to address the drug problem is to legalize, regulate and control all drugs as we do with tobacco and alcohol. Drug use/abuse must be addressed as a public health and education problem. We understand this to be a complex, difficult topic. What should be a no-brainer, however, is the use of marijuana as medicine. As I know from family experience, marijuana provides pharmaceutical benefits not available from other cannabinoid, or, at least, not to the same level or degree of efficacy. Why this one plant has been singled out for such controversy is beyond asinine. We should not be wrangling with the problem of dispensaries and their attendant potential for abuse. Marijuana should be a drug available for prescription by licensed physicians, period. A common response from opponents is that the Food & Drug Administration has not found marijuana to be beneficial. The problem with that argument is that the FDA hasn’t yet done the mandatory research to allow marijuana’s addition to the pharmaceutical cornucopia. Read More. |
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I totally agree, indeed battle over medical marijuana makes no sense, as shared by healthy magazine. LEAP is an international organization comprised of thousands of police chiefs doing great work. Good post.