Pubdate: Sat, 05 Oct 2002
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA)
Copyright: 2002 Santa Cruz Sentinel
Contact:  http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/394
Author: Stacia Phelps

RETURN OF POT WRONG

I can't believe a judge gave Greg Brown back his pot. The man didn't even 
have a current doctor's recommendation, just an oral approval. Why doesn't 
a doctor have to write a prescription in order for a patient to buy marijuana?

If it is indeed a medicine, it should be treated as one. It should be 
dispensed by a doctor or pharmacist. I am not allowed to grow, cultivate 
and distribute my own penicillin. Greg Brown was smoking pot because he had 
a backache and an upset stomach. That describes about 90 percent of us 90 
percent of the time. I wonder how the world would function if we all 
decided to get high whenever we had acid indigestion.

Stacia Phelps

Santa Cruz
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