Pubdate: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 Source: Los Angeles Times (CA) Copyright: 2007 Los Angeles Times Contact: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/248 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n323/a04.html Author: Amitai Adler CONCERN ABOUT MARIJUANA RULING Re "Patient loses appeal on medical marijuana," March 15 I was sickened to hear of the appeals court ruling that refuses to reconsider our draconian drug laws even to save the life of a suffering woman. There is something wrong with a government that would rather spend billions of dollars keeping marijuana illegal and wasting countless law enforcement hours hunting down the ill and the dying, instead of simply acknowledging that marijuana is a useful medicinal herb (and even as a recreational drug is no more dangerous than alcohol) and decriminalizing it. Amitai Adler Los Angeles - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake