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 - --- MAP posted-by: Alex