Pubdate: Sat, 01 Feb 2003
Source: San Diego Union Tribune (CA)
Section: Letters To The Editor
Copyright: 2003 Union-Tribune Publishing Co.
Contact:  http://www.uniontrib.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/386
Author: Candace M. Carroll
Note: Title by MAP Editor
Referenced: Editorial: Marijuana Madness: Respected Researchers vx. Ragtag 
Task Force
MAP URL - http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n139/a03.html?1195 and SD 
Union Tribune URL: 
http://signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/mon/opinion/news_1ed27top.html
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?115 (Cannabis - California)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal)

LETTERS REGARDING MEDICAL MARIJUANA TASK FORCE

Iam acquainted with several members of the task force, and I would hardly 
describe them as "ragtag." They include serious policy experts as well as 
people suffering from conditions for which state law now permits the use of 
medicinal marijuana. Those who face serious medical issues do not deserve 
to be called "patients" in quotes, as though they were not really ill but 
faking.

Further, the task force's doctor did not quit because he had lost faith in 
the task force, as your editorial implied; instead, he took a new position 
in another city just two months ago, after serving on the task force for a 
year and a half.

Moreover, the guidelines do not permit specific dosage amounts for 
individual conditions; rather, that is left up to each patient's doctor.

Candace M. Carroll

San Diego 
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