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Ferre
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Doctor: Marijuana is relatively harmless
Article published on Friday, October 15th, 2004
Letter to the Editor
By DR. BOB JOHNSON
To establish my credentials, you should know that I practiced family medicine for 40 years in Kodiak. My special interests were drug abuse/addiction and psycho-somatic medicine (now mind/body medicine).
I was a founder of the Kodiak Mental Health Center in 1970, the Kodiak Council on Alcoholism in 1971, and the first JCAH-approved inpatient treatment program in Alaska (Hope House). I was the medical consultant to that program and held weekly educational sessions with clients on the effects, use, abuse and addiction of all mood-altering drugs until my retirement.
I taught the “Functional Approach to Alcoholism,” a 40-hour behavioral science course at Kodiak College in 1976-77, was a director of the National Council on Alcoholism, Alaska Region in 1978, served as president of the Governor’s Advisory Board on Alcoholism (GABA) from 1979-84 (three years as president), medical director of KCA Outpatient Detoxification Unit from 1990-92.
In the early 1980s, at the request of the Legislature, with a committee of the Alaska State Medical Association, I reviewed the effects of marijuana. The committee concluded that marijuana, an hallucinogen, affected control and coordination as much as did alcohol, but had no short or long-term ill effects and was not addicting. In general, it was found to be less dangerous than alcohol and it was felt that it should be legally available.
Unfortunately, because of fear created and perpetuated by uneducated politicians, this relatively harmless drug has been made illegal.
Many who possessed or used it, regardless of whether or not anyone was harmed, are now serving sentences in jail. In addition, those who would benefit from its use in control of nausea induced by chemotherapy or in terminal illness have great difficulty getting it.
I am currently a director of the Alaska Drug Forum, a non-profit corporation formed, among other reasons, to expose the marijuana myth and convince the Alaska Legislature to legalize the drug.
http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=553
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Long live Doctor BOB JOHNSON ! 
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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Amen to that!
I just got an email alert from the Marijuana Policy Project regarding the Marijuana Initiative on the Alaska ballot for this November 2.
It's looking very good! Even opponents are saying that it's likely that it will pass. They're worried:
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"The legalizers have done a good job this time," said former
U.S. Attorney Wev Shea, who backed a 1990 initiative to
criminalize pot in Alaska and was also a key spokesman against
legalization in 2000. "Have you seen the commercials? ... They're
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It will make possession and cultivation completely legal for adults over (I think) 21. I'm not sure what amount is specified (currently, thanks to a court ruling which rendered the criminalization unconstitutional, Alaskans can posses up to 4 oz.)
The law will also legalize the cultivation of commercial-industrial hemp for all it's uses.
Let's keep this in our Prayers and Intentions and Meditations. It's so important! (...but you all know that!...)
When Alaska legalizes, other states will, slowly but surely, begin to follow suit.
Remember: Marijuana make doctors relatively harmless! 
Follow Your Bliss
Ben
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Alaskan
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I'm a proud alaskan, and I didn't see much information on the ballot #2 here.
So The ballot had a narrow defeat. It had over 90 thousand votes and 43% of the vote. Very close, and hopefully soon will become legalized. It's a trouble though many of residents will vote no against due to home grows and threat of goverment control of distribution.
It'd be nice if growing herb could be a legal profession
Nico
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Alaskan
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Frank Murkowski is a Tool, he's trying to take away our rights, as written in the Alaskan constitution. I definately want him out of office next election.
And for cannabis to become legal... I gotta make sure all the users get out and vote, and not sit at home high. javascript:emoticon(' ')
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