Readers respond: Cannabis, derivatives not as safe as claimed | Chattanooga Times Free Pre
December 6, 2025
To the editors (especially that of the left-leaning Chattanooga Times),
This week’s Journal of the American Medical Association highlights that hemp-derived cannabis and cannabinoids are not as safe as their profit-seeking promoters claim.
Daily inhaled cannabis users are more than twice as likely to suffer coronary artery disease (which leads to heart attacks), a stroke, psychosis, schizophrenia, and generalized anxiety disorder. Read for yourself.
Media promoting any psychoactive drug use, such as alcohol, nicotine, cannabis, psychedelics, and others, as safe abuse their power as they deceive their readers to believe these agents are safe, which they are not.
Jim Kennedy
Smyrna
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