Letter: New Marijuana Study Has Obvious Flaws
Carl Olsen
August 11, 2007
Des Moines Register
There's another war that seems to never end — the drug war. The July 27 Register carried an article regarding a recent marijuana study published in the prestigious medical journal the Lancet ("Study Links Pot Use To High Risk of Psychosis").
The story says scientists have now found that the use of pot causes long-term psychosis. The researchers admit that other factors might be involved, and they are not sure marijuana is causing the problem.
Who would have thought being labeled a criminal by the rest of society would cause long-term psychosis? In the last paragraph of the article, it says several of the researchers were paid by drug companies to attend meetings related to marijuana. I wonder if they had a motive in trying to make marijuana look bad, considering it's a top competitor against their pharmaceutical poisons?
Carl Olsen, Des Moines | 
