Candian Medical Association endorses cannabis decrim Here's a snipped Media Awareness Project version of the story out of the Windsor Star. The important part:
The Canadian Medical Association ( CMA ) is among a growing number of organizations supporting the decriminalization of pot. It notes that about 400,000 Canadians use cannabis for medical reasons.
The CMA calls the health effects of moderate use "minimal" and estimates that 1.5 million Canadians smoke marijuana for recreational purposes. The real harm is the legal and social fallout, it says. "About half of all drug arrests in Canada are for simple possession of small amounts of marijuana: about 31,299 convictions in 1995 alone.
"Many lead to jail terms or fines and all result in that indelible social tattoo: a criminal record."
I think American physicians really understand this as well, but they are afraid of the political fallout of saying so.
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