Don't be fooled by Stephen Harper's spin campaign on marijuana

Anyone with a brain knows that marijuana plants have medicinal properties that can help sick people.

It's been covered extensively in National Geographic.

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta has produced three documentaries on it.

These are hardly the most radical voices in the land.

Here in B.C., Dr. Ian Mitchell, a Kamloops emergency-room physician, wants to research the impact of an extract called cannabidiol on posttraumatic stress disorder.

He's pointed out that medical cannabis can assist those suffering from cancer, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, gastrointestinal disease, and HIV/AIDS. (Let's hope that Mitchell's message reaches Canadian Press wireservice reporters who might still be prone to reefer madness.) 

It's no wonder that several groups representing people with HIV/AIDS were interveners in the recent Smith case before the Supreme Court of Canada.

Despite mountains of evidence—assessed by judges mostly appointed by Stephen Harper—the Conservatives have gone ballistic over the court striking down a federal ban on edibles containing cannabis.

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