Pubdate: Sun, 19 Oct 2014
Source: Orlando Sentinel (FL)
Copyright: 2014 Orlando Sentinel
Contact:  http://www.orlandosentinel.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/325
Note: Rarely prints out-of-state LTEs.
Author: Margaret Westgate

CATERING TO CRIMINALS INSTEAD OF PATIENTS

I just love the thinking of those in charge of deciding where 
dispensaries for medical marijuana should be sited. Let's by all 
means place them where criminals are more likely to be comfortable 
than patients who are disabled and/or in serious pain.

Many of these patients will be frail and older or, in some cases, children.

Let's be realistic: People who want illegal drugs will get them. All 
that has happened so far in the latest "war against drugs" is to make 
life more difficult for patients who need the relief. The headlines 
may look good, but the real story is seldom told.

The anti-legalization group is composed mainly of Big Pharma, which 
fears losing money, and law-enforcement agencies, which will no 
longer be able to confiscate cash and property to support their big 
guns and armored vehicles.

It would be wonderful if, just once, the people I vote into office 
would work for my benefit. I'm sorry that I can't afford to donate 
enough cash to buy their election, but I do vote, and learned in 
school that voting was what made our nation great.

What a joke, but I'm not laughing.

Margaret Westgate

Orlando
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