Pubdate: Wed, 26 Apr 2006
Source: New York Times (NY)
Copyright: 2006 The New York Times Company
Contact:  http://www.nytimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/298
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n495/a01.html
Author: Kenneth Michael White

MEDICAL MARIJUANA, PRO AND CON

To the Editor:

It is no surprise that the Food and Drug Administration dismissed the
medical value of cannabis. Plants cannot be patented.

An agency with such close ties to the pharmaceutical industry has no
incentive to recognize the medical value of a plant that people could
grow themselves free of charge.

Kenneth Michael White

Ontario, Calif., April 21, 2006

The writer is the author of "The Beginning of Today: The Marihuana 
Tax Act of 1937."
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