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
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n112/a11.html

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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