Pubdate: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 Source: Delta County Independent (CO) Copyright: 2010 Delta County Independent Contact: http://mapinc.org/url/5y9TXXEE Website: http://www.deltacountyindependent.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/5139 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n795/a03.html Author: Stan White LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA WILL END GOVERNMENT EXTORTION Dear Editor: I sincerely relate to Carol Pierce's testimony (Letter: Medical marijuana is a beneficial option for sufferers, Sept. 29, 2010) concerning access to cannabis (marijuana) for sick citizens. My son endured leukemia cancer in 1997, and to be denied any information about how cannabis might help ease excruciating pain made me very angry and led to becoming a cannabis activist. Sophisticated citizens using the computer will find out how unmercifully government has withheld such an important beneficial God-given plant. What sick citizens must do in order to obtain and use cannabis amounts to government subsidized extortion and it will end once cannabis is completely RE-legalized. Every facet of cannabis prohibition has been a harmful and embarrassing segment of American history. Ending cannabis prohibition and extermination is one of the most important issues of our time. Stan White Dillon - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake