🚀 go-pugleaf

Roy! (rkpark@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca) writes:
> In article <4h0hbl$qin@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>,
> Andrew Metcalfe <ametcalf@ccs.carleton.ca> wrote:
>>I'll take the word of my next door neighbour (in toronto) - a doctor,
>>(psychiatrist, actually) and a regular pot smoker, before I take the
>>word of some (unnamed, unsubstanciated, mythical?) insurance company.
> 
> Are you saying that because he's a doctor and he smokes pot, marijuana 
> must be somehow 'good' for you?  If that's the case, you are confusing two 
> different issue here:  substance abuse and 'goodness' or marijuana.  
> Substance abuse is usually common between the people who are:  1) under 
> constant stress  2) unhappy  3) addict.  Those people do abuse their body 
> (as for WHY, ask them) knowing that the stuff is bad for them.  Just 
> because 'a doctor' prefers (maybe?) marijuana over alcohol or tobacco, it 
> doesn't mean it's necessary because marijuana is 'better'.

There are still many health care professionals (doctors and others) who
smoke, despite the overwhelming evidence that it is harmful to smoke.
So does that mean it's OK to smike, because my neighbour the doctor
smokes? Hardly!


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