Letter: Persecuting Pot
Ralph Givens
January 22, 2009
Alibi.com (NM)
[Re: Neverending Stories, "Local Nurse Brings the Medicinal Cannabis Fight to the Feds," Jan. 15-21] The continuing denial of marijuana as a medicine exposes the utter fraud of drug prohibition. No sane person who does not make a living enforcing drug laws can deny that marijuana has "accepted medical use." Thousands of people with recommendations from doctors in 12 states is all the proof needed to put the lie to the drug crusader myth that "marijuana has no medical value."
If the courts read the plain language of the Controlled Substances Act they must rule that marijuana has accepted medical utility because doctors, medical researchers and patients say so. No extensive testing is needed to prove the widespread use of marijuana for medical purposes when so many doctors and patients are using cannabis for their medical conditions.
It's time for the feds to get out of medicine. | 
