Pubdate: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 Source: Reporter, The (Fond du Lac, WI) Copyright: 2002 Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers Contact: http://www.wisinfo.com/thereporter/index.shtml Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2271 Author: James Reinke MARIJUANA HAS VALID THERAPEUTIC VALUE I am replying to an editorial that ran on July 26 by Darlene Hanke, a Fond du lac County public health nurse. Ms. Hanke is out of touch with the science of Medical Marijuana, from migraines to chronic pain, MS, glaucoma and AIDS, cannabis has been found to have therapeutic value. As a public health nurse, she should belong to two organizations - The Wisconsin Nurses Association and the Wisconsin Public Health Association - that both support the medicinal use of cannabis. I believe anyone who can deny the sick or dying medicine that can relieve any ill symptoms is not very compassionate, and I would hope not to have her as my or any of my loved ones' nurse. James Reinke Madison - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Stevens