Pubdate: Tue, 27 Nov 2001
Source: Tampa Tribune (FL)
Copyright: 2001, The Tribune Co.
Contact:  http://www.tampatrib.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/446
Author: Rick L. Meredith
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/ashcroft.htm (Ashcroft, John)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?194 (Hutchinson, Asa)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/props.htm (Ballot Initiatives)

FEDERAL INTERFERENCE

I feel much safer after reading about John Ashcroft and Asa 
Hutchinson closing down the medical marijuana supply clubs in 
California and threatening to revoke prescription-writing powers of 
doctors in Oregon who help terminally ill patients die with dignity. 
Lord only knows what those sick marijuana smokers and those 
terminally ill patients had planned.

California's medical marijuana law and Oregon's assisted suicide law 
were passed by ballot initiative. As in ``We the people'' have 
spoken. Both laws are protected by the Constitution's 10th Amendment. 
Evidently, Ashcroft and Hutchinson haven't bothered to read the 
Constitution that they both swore to uphold.

On Sept. 11, we were attacked by ruthless terrorists. Since then, 
anthrax has had American citizens living in a state of fear. Life as 
we once knew it in America will never be the same. It is good to know 
where our top law enforcement officials put their priorities.

I would like to suggest that Ashcroft and Hutchinson read the 
Constitution, stop terrorizing American citizens, and start looking 
for real terrorists.

Rick L. Meredith
Wesley Chapel
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