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GOVERNMENT HYPOCRISY IS UNVEILED

After Proposition 215 passed in California in November 1996, the subject of medical marijuana has become a frequently and heavily debated topic.

Although Hawaii, Oregon, Colorado, Alaska, Nevada, Washington and Maine followed suit and voted to legalize the use of medical marijuana, the federal government continues to interfere.

Less than three months ago, the federal government made an unprecedented raid on WAMM ( Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana ) in Santa Cruz.

It confiscated all the plants despite the fact that WAMM is locally authorized, works closely with the local police and is legal in California.

Although WAMM and other groups like it do not cause trouble and are around for the sole purpose of providing medicine to sick people, the federal government continues to make waves.

We think the federal government should butt out.

In fact we have always thought that, but now that we know the federal government provides medical marijuana to six people in America, we are confused.

The federal government regularly bullies and arrests people who legally grow or use medical marijuana for medicine and now we realize it's turning around and becoming totally hypocritical.

If the federal government provides medicinal marijuana to people, that in of itself is an admission that the government acknowledges marijuana's medicinal use.

In this case we think the government should stop preventing people from getting the medicine they need.

Most people who use medicinal marijuana are terminally ill so why ruin what may be the last few years, months or even days of their lives.

Marijuana has been proven to alleviate symptoms of serious health conditions.  For starters it has helped AIDS sufferers regain their appetite.

The facts are there and the government is ignoring them to insure the continued success of its greed-driven agenda.

When hundreds of thousands of Americans die each year from the effects of tobacco and still thousands more from drugs such as alcohol and even Aspirin, how can the government continue to criminalize the use of marijuana, which has to this day proven not to be responsible for a single death.

The decision should be up to each individual, not the men and women in government.