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I am a native of Rappahannock County and a long time subscriber of the Rappahannock News. It was with great concern that I read Bill Tieckelmann’s recent letters to the editor regarding drug legalization.
In his second letter (June 20), he states that the positions he expressed are commonly referred to as “medicalization” and “harm reduction”, not legalization. Apparently, Mr. Tieckelmann has been confused by the drug legalization advocates as they use those terms to promote incremental legalization, knowing that the public is overwhelmingly opposed to drug legalization.
Much of recent focus of the drug legalizers has been on so called “medical marijuana”. Modern medicine does not burn leaves and ask sick patients to inhale the smoke, which ife toxic! Instead, medically beneficial elements are synthesized and produced in purified form that can be used in known amounts, as has been done for THC, the psychoactive component of marijuana that has been available in pill form since 1985. ; In response to those who claim that inhalation is more effective, a vaporizer delivery system for THC and other marijuana components that may possibly have a medical use is now under development. None of the mediqal associations has requested availability of marijuana, and highly qualified doctors have written that other medicines are more effective for all the claimed medical uses and have Ifess undesirable side effects. 1 Mr. Tieckelmann quotes statistics regarding deaths due to alcohol and tobacco versus illegal drugs. But that is certainly a very
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