Jane Kelley wrote in a message to Gary Petz:
 JK> Bull.  I have in hand a copy of "Pot Safari" by Peggy Mann,
 JK> daughter of Margaret Mann, first female member of Alocoholics
 JK> Anonymous.  It documents with fact after fact, conversation after
 JK> conversation her trip of 4 months to the top marijuana researchers
 JK> in this nation and Canada. 
 JK> It has Library of Congress no. 82-91050.  Since that time, the
 JK> stuff has gotten stronger.  Any book done today in the same fashion
 JK> would simply find more chemicals in marijuana than the 2,000
 JK> referred to in this book.  Toxic chemicals.
Now as before, marijuana varies in potency depending on its variety
and growing conditions.  Its potency is irrelevant, except that this
lets those who choose to smoke it rather than eat it or vaporize it
be harmed less by the byproducts of burning the leaf -- due to
chemicals that occur when any plant material is burned.
Otherwise, the researchers have determined that marijuana is not
toxic in any meaningful context.  It is not surprising that you rely
on an anecdotal source and not researchers' studies here (like the
ones I have cited and provided to you) since nothing scientifically
competent supports your representations regarding marijuana.
 JK> Another book on my shelves that I cannot see readily was published
 JK> by the union for the corrections officers in Seattle who worked in
 JK> the King County Jail.  They saw first hand what happened to kids
 JK> who were under the influence of this weed and wrote a manual on it
 JK> for parents.
 JK> It didn't glorify the use of a drug that has killed many youngsters
 JK> in King County.  Not one damn bit.
No one is championing the use of marijuana by children without
medical supervision.  This should be the case with any drug.  In any
event, since marijuana is not meaningfully toxic, it cannot have killed
anyone, and your corrections officers are not competent researchers if
they arrived at a different conclusion based upon uncontrolled
observations.
If you want to place blame somewhere other than with the children, the
next most responsible influence would be the parents who created the home
and family atmosphere that resulted in their children's problem.  But
then, we can't have the schools and the police criticizing tax-paying
parents, can we?  So we conveniently blame a weed that can expose
the result of bad parenting.
 JK> And I suggest that anyone who is ignorant of the truth about this
 JK> drug is either defending the right to use it or is under its
 JK> influence in one way or another.
You're ignorant about the truth regarding this drug.  What drug or
psychological aberration are you under the influence of that
causes you to ignore the truth and purvey your lies?
 JK> There is no right inherent in using a mind altering drug and
 JK> endangering one's own life
Says who?  It is only in an authoritarian society where adults
are not permitted to exercise their prereogatives regarding how
best to live their lives.  Remember the Soviet Union Jane?  They
were the bad guys worthy of being nuked because they were
authoritarian and we were supposedly free and had the right
to do with our lives as we saw fit.
 JK>  or the life of anyone else.  None.
This I agree with.
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