Pubdate: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 Source: Bulletin, The (OR) Copyright: 2000 Western Communications Inc. Contact: 1526 NW Hill St., Bend, OR 97701 Fax: (541) 385-5804 Website: http://www.bendbulletin.com/ Page; E-3 Author: Shaun K. Heuston EDITORIAL BOARD NEEDS A HIT This letter is in response to The Bulletin's editorial regarding the expansion of the Medical Marijuana Act ( Feb 14). At first angered by the editorial board's remark that all applications for expanding the act should "receive due consideration of 30 seconds before denial," I quickly realized the board members were perfect candidates for medical marijuana. Their inability to see the compasion and wisdom of Oregon voters is indicative of their own need to quell their social nausea with a bong hit ! Their unkind and ill-considered remarks show the extent of their own dysfunction: civil myopia, intellectual glaucoma, and the cancer of closed-mindedness. This " editorial " ( like misspelled Graffiti ) shows the intelligence and spirtit of its authors, sarcasm oozing from each sentence. Shame on your board members ! God forbid that you or any of your loved-ones ever get sick from anything, but if they do, Oregon's medical marijuana act will be there for them too. On a plaque in my mothers kitchen when I was a child was written " Lord, make my words tender and sweet today for tomorrow I may have to eat them," or maybe smoke them. - --- MAP posted-by: Keith Brilhart