Pubdate: Sun, 08 Jan 2006
Source: Boston Globe (MA)
Copyright: 2006 Globe Newspaper Company
Contact:  http://www.boston.com/globe/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/52
Author: Kenneth Michael White, Upland,  Calif.
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal)
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n013/a12.html?266665

A YEA VOTE FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA

BY OVERRIDING Governor Carcieri's veto ("R.I. approves medical use of 
marijuana," Jan. 4), the Rhode Island House embraced this country's 
original policy position regarding marijuana. Before Congress 
effectively criminalized  the plant in 1937, marijuana was considered 
medicine by the American Medical Association. Hopefully this 
commendable recognition of the will of the people by the Rhode Island 
Legislature will spur Congress to adopt a common-sense drug policy, too.
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