‘Medicinal’ marijuana didn’t reduce my pain, reader says
After suffering with arthritic neck pain and having no relief from treatments and prescribed drugs such as morphine and fentanyl patches, I phoned the B.C. Pain Society that offers marijuana. I was told to get a doctor to sign a form and then come to the dispensary on Commercial Drive for counselling.
As I am against smoking, a young lady sold me a syringe of dark sticky oil for $25 with 10 doses. She told me that I would not get high. The “treatment” did not help my pain, but did give me a high, which I did not want or need.
The B.C. Pain Society’s name is a misnomer as it seems to be primarily a dispensary with limited counselling. Most of the pot is for recreational use and not pain control.
Marijuana tincture and candies may help some people, but it did not help my pain. Joanne Hart, Surrey
Cannabis is real medicine
It appears letter-writer Jerry Steinberg believes cannabis dispensaries are “pushers,” but he is clearly pushing the hyperbole of the failed war on drugs. Cannabis is a medicine and the dispensaries sell it to patients in need.
The 4/20 protest was an expression of outrage that in 2016 people still are being arrested and prosecuted for cannabis offences in Canada despite a promise by our federal government to legalize it. Scott Henderson, Victoria
She’s using drugs in prison?
The article on killer Kelly Ellard applying for day parole reported that she told the parole board that she wants to enter a drugtreatment program. She also stated that she has abstained from drugs for 11 months. Am I missing something? Has she not been in prison for the past decade? Should she not have been drug-free for as many years as she’s been in prison? Doug Leith, Aldergrove
Time to stop French signage
I do not support the language discrimination by Quebec against businesses displaying signs in English.
The Official Languages Act forces federal facilities outside of Quebec to display signs in English as well as French even though practically everyone of French background living outside of Quebec can read English.
Since Quebec represses English in Quebec, the other provinces should curtail the use of French in their jurisdictions. Jiti Khanna, Vancouver
Why not blame the scouts?
Why is it that whenever poor drafting by the Canucks is reported, Patrick White’s name is always mentioned? Why are the names and faces of the pro scouts who used all their skills and instructed their bosses to draft White in 2007 not shown as well? Was it White’s fault or did the scouts fail? Maybe a coach put him in the wrong position or he had a personal problem with him before White had a fair chance to show what he was capable of doing. Don Pike, New Westminster
Columnist makes us laugh
Gordon Clark’s column on income taxes and government spending Monday was excellent — the most well-written and timely editorial in some time.
It bears reading not once or twice, but three times because not only is Clark bang on about the way most of us feel about outof-control government spending, he also makes one laugh with the analogies he used. Errol Borsky, Kamloops