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DEATH AND A PERSPECTIVE ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA

As a Colorado citizen who voted for Amendment 20, allowing sick citizens cannabis, I support Toms River resident Jim Miller's request to limit government's ability to cage sick citizens for using cannabis.

The government wants us to believe that cannabis is a weapon of mass destruction.

Since Colorado enacted its initiative, rates of cannabis use have not increased and the sky hasn't fallen.  Every state, in recent memory, that's seen an initiative allowing medical use of cannabis, passed it, batting a thousand.

For perspective, imagine a family member with cancer being allowed to self-induce morphine every six minutes for pain, but be prohibited from using cannabis to even see if it helps.  That's the way I looked at it when my son was dying with leukemia.

Stan White, Dillon, Colo.