Pubdate: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 Source: San Francisco Examiner (CA) Copyright: 2001 San Francisco Examiner Contact: http://www.mapinc.org/media/389 Website: http://www.examiner.com/ Author: Stan White Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1869/a05.html FEDS SHOW NO COMPASSION THANK you for the coverage of Asa Hutchinson's DEA busting medical cannabis operations. I wish this were not taking place. Your Tuesday story shows a side of the district attorney's job, that of compassion, that is welcome. Somehow the federal government is grotesquely failing citizens on this issue. It defies integrity and rationality to cage humans for using cannabis. To cage sick citizens using cannabis for relief of pain is vile, morbid and spiteful for a civilization in the year 2001. Stan White, Dillon, Colo. - --- MAP posted-by: Doc-Hawk