I congratulate you and welcome the Port Washington Times to Port Washington.
I had recently read a copy of the Roslyn Times and had wished that we had a newspaper of similar quality in Port Washington. It appears that we now do.
However, I am compelled to take issue with Joe Nikic on his article “Medical pot slow to grow in N.Y.”
This otherwise excellent article points out that, “medical marijuana still has negative stigmas.”
Unfortunately, it is the use of the word “pot”’ in the title of the article which contributes to this unfounded stigma.
“Pot,” one of the many street names for recreational marijuana, bears little relationship to CBD oil, the active element in medical marijuana, which is extracted from cannabis.
CBD, one of the hundreds of chemicals that make up cannabis,has absolutely no psychoactive effect; you cannot get high on it.
Sadly,the uninformed do not make this distinction.
The use of “pot” to describe “medical marijuana” perpetuates this misunderstanding.
Donald S. Hecht
Port Washington
