Pubdate: Sun, 08 Oct 2000
Date: 10/08/2000
Source: Denver Post (CO)
Author: John Corbett
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1455/a02.html

The flaws in Amendment 20, be they what they are, are directly related
to the unwillingness of state and federal lawmakers to draft
reasonable medical marijuana legislation on their own. If marijuana
circumvents the normal prescription drug route, it is only because the
federal government has refused to allow widespread testing of the drug
and continues its indefensible Schedule I labeling of cannabis in general.

Sometimes, the public has to draft whatever can work in the short term
to overcome the stubborn and irrational intransigence of those who
claim to lead us. Let's face it, Amendment 20 will win in November,
and I will be proud to vote for it.

A vote against Amendment 20 is a vote for continued unconscionable
criminal prosecution of the sick and dying.

JOHN CORBETT,
Highlands Ranch