"Therapeutic smoke" is an oxymoron defining the hoax of "medical marijuana" as Washington D.C. is attempting to legalize. (Post "Lessons learned on medical marijuana," 3/24/10) As the entire civilized world now knows, the science is decidedly against smoking anything because of the proven harm of breathing toxic products of combustion from burning substances-- including tobacco, marijuana, heroin and crack. The federal Drug Enforcement Administration's paper "DEA Position on Marijuana" at link:

By DeForest Rathbone-Chairman
National Institute of Citizen Anti Drug Policy

comprehensively documents the case against legalizing "medical marijuana" citing many scientific studies verifying the harm of marijuana smoke. That authoritative scientific documentation provides full justification for Congress to block the D.C. government's attempts to legalize unhealthy marijuana smoke as medicine. If Congress should fail to thwart that dangerous D.C. initiative, then parents, teachers and police will all have a much more difficult time stopping teen marijuana use as the kids use the infamous Marion Barry defense, "I'm just smoking my medicine.