Pubdate: Wed, 30 Apr 2003
Source: Orange County Register, The (CA)
Copyright: 2003 The Orange County Register
Contact:  http://www2.ocregister.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/321
Author: Mark Hudiburg

MEDICAL MARIJUANA: TWO VIEWS

The voters of California passed a law that says if you have a terminal 
illness and your doctor thinks that medicinal marijuana will relieve some 
of the pain, then marijuana can be prescribed for you. And yet even when 
this marijuana is provided to these patients in accordance with that law, 
the federal government is still going to arrest you. That doesn't sound 
like compassionate conservatism to me.

I have watched a person die from brain cancer. I cannot imagine someone 
seeing a loved one go through this and not want to do whatever he or she 
could to help him or her. I think the government needs to leave medical 
decisions to people's doctors.

Mark Hudiburg

Lake Forest
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