[420 Girl]

As a federally licensed medical marijuana user who is also married to one, I would like to comment on “Drug tools available on local shelves”, June 2.

Cobourg Mayor Peter Delanty said, “...and obviously is a gateway drug to harder drugs." Marijuana is not a gateway to harder drugs. This prohibitionist myth has been repeatedly and soundly debunked. He may as well insist the earth is flat, for all the scientific accuracy it holds. One need look no further than the 2002 Senate Committee on Drugs for proof.

If Delanty continues to assert this scientifically proven lie, he could face a Human Rights Complaint for deliberately mis-characterizing and stigmatizing marijuana users – many of whom are licensed to use marijuana for debilitating or life-threatening conditions. We will not tolerate people speaking about us or our medicine in this way, and demand he retract the statement.

As for Cobourg Police Chief Paul Sweet's comments, "It just shows the wrong attitude towards drugs and substance abuse”, not all drug use is abuse.

These devices are medical assistive devices. Licensed medical marijuana users, and the hundreds of thousands of unlicensed users, need them to deliver their medicine. They need to buy them somewhere, so banning them could invite even more Human Rights complaints and even lawsuits.

That said, these devices should be out of the sight of kids and should not be promoted where kids can see them.

As for what constituents want, the general public is so miserably misinformed about marijuana and its users – due in large part because of ridiculous fear-mongering articles like this one – that their opinions should not really mean much. You wouldn't consult a five-year-old on foreign policy, so why ask the public about something they simply do not understand?

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