Source: Oakland Tribune
Contact:  Sun, 10 May 1998
Our Newshawk writes: "Interestingly the editor decided it was necessary to
define 'medicinal hemp.'"

REMEMBER MARIJUANA ON ELECTION DAY

Dear Editor,

If Dan Lungren were more interested in implementing Proposition 215 than
impeding it, the voters of California would have only the federal
government to about on this issue.

Who cares whether medicinal hemp (marijuana) has medical value? It is
indisputable that if provides symptomatic relief for a large number of
suffers. Just ask them.

Aspirin, also, provides mostly symptomatic relief. It also kills several
hundred children and several thousand people a year through accidents and
overdosing. Few, except a few thousand illegal drug traffickers, want to
extend prohibition to include aspirin.

One hopes the voters of California will remember Lungren's opposition to
implementation of Proposition 215 on election day.

Gerald M. Sutliff, Emeryville (CA)

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