Pubdate: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 Source: City Pages (MN) Copyright: 2005, City Pages Media, Inc. Contact: http://www.citypages.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2567 Author: Chris Buors Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n493/a10.html?47552 TAKE TWO IN THE MORNING AND TRY TO CALL ME Medical marijuana is becoming more and more accepted in the mainstream as anecdotal evidence of its beneficence changes public opinions ("Dr. Feelgood," 3/23). This raises an interesting question--who decides what is and isn't medicine? The answer is, politicians decide. The ugliness of that observation needs to be driven home. Doctors ought to be the proper authorities in deciding what is and isn't medicine. America, after separating church and state, has turned into a police state that persecutes people for using the wrong medicines. The marriage of medicine and state has not done the world any good. Separation of medicine and state will put the authority to decide what is and isn't medicine back to where it belongs, with the individual. Chris Buors Winnipeg, Manitoba - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom