Pubdate: Wed, 13 Apr 2005
Source: City Pages (MN)
Copyright: 2005, City Pages Media, Inc.
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2567
Author: Chris Buors
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n493/a10.html?47552

TAKE TWO IN THE MORNING AND TRY TO CALL ME

Medical marijuana is becoming more and more accepted in the mainstream as 
anecdotal evidence of its beneficence changes public opinions ("Dr. 
Feelgood," 3/23). This raises an interesting question--who decides what is 
and isn't medicine? The answer is, politicians decide. The ugliness of that 
observation needs to be driven home. Doctors ought to be the proper 
authorities in deciding what is and isn't medicine. America, after 
separating church and state, has turned into a police state that persecutes 
people for using the wrong medicines. The marriage of medicine and state 
has not done the world any good. Separation of medicine and state will put 
the authority to decide what is and isn't medicine back to where it 
belongs, with the individual.

Chris Buors Winnipeg, Manitoba
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