Source: San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
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Pubdate: Mon, 06 Apr 1998

NARCOMANIACS

Editor -- The police raid on the patient files of the San Jose cannabis
club is typical of the treachery of narcotics enforcement. The San Jose
narcomaniacs have already reneged on their agreement to respect the right
of patients to medical marijauna without police interference under
Proposition 215. The drug war is a collossal failure and blaming medical
marijuna for the failure of Reefer Madness law enforcement to stop drug use
is the biggest of lies. Drug prohibition is a catastrophe that has always
caused more trouble than it is worth. When these marijuana madmen insist on
depriving the sick and dying of a valuable medicine they violate
fundamental human rights and go too far.

REDFORD GIVENS
San Francisco