To the Ads Standards Branch of Canada: Dear Madam:: Thank you for your replies. Indeed, the information contained on the Health Canada website is years out of date, and strongly biased towards the negative. I respectfully suggest that it can only serve Canadians more completely for you to access other sources of information in order to get a more robust and complete understanding of the issues. There has been a significant backlash online to these MARIHUANA ads from the patients who fought against Health Canada for the right to be permitted to use Cannabis as medicine. All of them dispute the claims made by the Health Canada ad, and describe it as Reefer Madness Two, in reference to a well known propaganda campaign launched in the 1930s in the United States targeting immigrating Mexican workers. Furthermore, since the term Marihuana is and has been historically used as a racially charged epithet, it is unacceptable and politically incorrect, when the botanical name of the substance and plant is properly known as Cannabis. This can at the very least be described as misrepresentation of the facts, since there is no factual difference between Marihuana and Cannabis, and at worst it is a tool of social division, used for PARTISAN POLITICAL purposes. Those to whom I have spoken take great exception to the use of extremely biased and highly charged meta-language that has commonly been used to oppress groups of minorities in many racial groups, social ethnicity, and to suppress the points of views of normal citizens for centuries. These ads have been the target of derision worldwide because their bias against Cannabis is so clear and obvious. As an ads STANDARDS branch, I truly hope you are able to resist the Conservatives politically biased influence hold the government to moral and ethical standards. Once again, I strongly note the Canadian College of Physicians has REFUSED to endorse these commercials, citing their partisan nature. I suggest you contact them to confirm or determine their reasoning for this decision. I will now provide some links for your perusal,and encourage you to explore this matter further without prejudice. Dr Raphael Mechoulam: mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196%2811%2900027-9/fulltext Dr Ethan B Russo: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3165946/ My best regards, Daniel Boughen If anyone else woould care to join in, protesting the HC ads to Ads Standards Canada might be a good way to make your opinion known. They seem somewhat receptive to reason.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 23:48:04 +0000
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