Pubdate: Mon, 03 Feb 2003
Source: Daily Star, The (NY)
Copyright: 2003 The Daily Star
Contact:  http://www.thedailystar.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/557
Author: Stephen Heath

WHAT'S CONFUSING ABOUT MEDICAL POT?

This is in response to "Sufferers plead for medical pot," published on
Jan 23.

"Law enforcement officials, meanwhile, have been a primary opponent to
legalizing the medical use of marijuana, claiming such a law would
compromise their ability to fight illegal use of the drug."

What's so confusing? Patients with proper credentials from their
licensed physician should not be arrested. Those people who do not
have such support are subject to arrest. When drugs are in pill form
from a pharmacy, no such confusion exists, so why should marijuana
leave police baffled?

As also noted in the article, police in the eight states where medical
marijuana is already legal aren't having these alleged problems. Do
West Coast police have higher IQs than those in New York?

STEPHEN HEATH

Clearwater, Fla.

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