Pubdate: Fri, 13 Jun 2003
Source: Tahoe Daily Tribune (South Lake Tahoe, CA)
Copyright: 2003 Tahoe Daily Tribune
Contact:  http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/443
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n877/a09.html
Author: Laura Brown
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?115 (Cannabis - California)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/people/Ed+Rosenthal (Rosenthal, Ed)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/authors/Calvina+Fay (Fay, Calvina)
Note: "The idiot" to whom the writer is referring is the author of the 
referenced letter above.

HAVE YOU SEEN SOMEONE WITH HIV/AIDS?

Tribune:

This is a letter in response to the idiot who called Ed a Drug Kingpin. He 
grew marijuana, and will still grow, for sick people under California law.

Just because the federal government thinks it knows best, it usually does 
not. Pot and medical marijuana are prime examples. Local communities should 
have the right to make certain laws.

I bet you have never seen someone sick and dying of HIV/AIDS, or cancer? 
Instead of doping them up on morphine-based drugs, why not use natural 
marijuana? It has been tested over THOUSANDS of years. Medical marijuana 
has been passed by 17 states and will eventually lead, hopefully, to a 
change in or failed drug war, which we lost before we started.

Ed just got pushed around by the Feds and California, thank goodness, 
pushed back.

Laura Brown, Burlington, Vt.
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