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As a result, patients who could truly benefit from marijuana are paying high prices for the drug, he said. "The sad thing is that, ] 0 years later, you. still have to have $$0 to get marijuana if you h. ave cancer or AIDS. Our program was a charitable program ... We were based on being off the black market." At the Holistic Clinic, Armando said many medical marijuana users get negative reactions from their families and friends, Arn~ando said. "People come in here afraid of being put into a database, afraid of their mothers, fathers knowing,".... Source: http-~~~h~ww 5{*~~tribune.com/news/ci 5159040 While collecting information on this topic, I had an opportunity to view some interesting viewpoints proffered from those both in and outside of California as well as abroad. What they have to say about Marijuana's medical use and our current system is tnteresting reading. Even people who initially supported legalizing or providing marijuana for medicinal purposes are reexamining their position or at least calling into duestion the abuses of our current system. England: Cannabis: An apology In 1997, this newspaper launched a campaign to decriminalize the drug. If only we had known then what we can reveal. today... By 3onathan Owen Published: 18 March 2007 Record numbers of teenagers are requiring drug treatment as a result of smoking skunk, the highly potent cannabis strain that is 2.5 times stronger than resin sold a decade ago. More than 22,000 people were treated last year for cannabis addiction - and almost half of those affected were under 18. With doctors and drugs experts warning that skunk can. be as damaging as cocaine and heroin., leading to mental health problems and psychosis for thousands of teenagers, The Independent on Sunday has today reversed its landmark campaign for cannabis use to be decriminalized.....The decision comes as statistics from the NHS National Treatment Agency show that the number of young people in treatment almost doubled from about 5,000 in 2005 to 9,600 in 2006, and that 13,000 adults also needed treatment. The skunk smoked by the majority of young Britons bears no relation to traditional cannabis resin - with a 25-fold increase in the amount of the main psychoactive ingredient, tetrahydrocannabidinol (THC), typically found in the early 1990s. New research being published in this week's Lancet will. show h.ow cannabis is more dangerous than LSD and ecstasy. Experts analyzed 20 substances for addictiveness, social harm. and physical damage. The results will increase the pressure on the Government to have a full debate on drugs, and a new independent UK drug policy commission being launched next month will call for a rethink on the issue. The findings last night reignited the debate about cannabis use, with a growing number of specialists saying that the drug bears no relation to the substance most law-makers would recognize. Professor Colin Blakemore, chief of the Medical Research Council, who backed our original campaign for cannabis to be decriminalized, has also changed his mind. 19 75A-114