Re: "Justice gone to pot," Editorial, April 5.

The justice system should be ashamed to have destroyed a good man's life and forced dozens of sick and dying people to return to the streets to buy pot where they risk arrest--or far worse at the hands of criminals.

Grant Krieger has been harassed and targeted by the authorities for the terrible crime of alleviating suffering and challenging the laws regarding medical use of marijuana. A hero is someone who goes into a burning building because he is willing to sacrifice his own well-being for the sake of others. Krieger is a hero who has been on fire a few times, but he kept going back into the flames. Now he is broke, a result of the choking legal costs, and has decided to give up the fight.

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