Pubdate: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 Source: Reno News & Review (NV) Copyright: 2010, John J. McCool Contact: http://www.newsreview.com/issues/reno/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2524 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n970/a08.html Author: John J. McCool ILLEGAL DOSES Re "Limited discourse" (News, Nov. 24): I suffer from a chronic pain disease. The docs have finally settled on methadone to treat my pain. After six-plus years on the same dose, this methadone works about as well as two aspirin. I have tried and now use marijuana to treat my pain, but I am not on the list for medical marijuana. Would you put your name on a list to use a drug still illegal in the United States? A list our police can read? I have to lie to my doctor because he has to give these same police my info if asked. What a world we could have if the drug war, like all wars, were over and the problem placed in the hands of health care professionals, who, right now, sing the psalms of the legal drug cartels. I guess maybe that might not be the answer either. As long as we have no say, drugs, health care, and all hope belong to the far right, which scares me no end. John J. McCool Reno - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom