Amen and thank you to Randy Alcorn for Sunday's "Right on Target" column.

I have direct interest in both of the issues he discussed, assisted suicide and medical marijuana.

My son, Ken Smyth, died in 1993 after having HIV/AIDS for about 12 years. We had always planned that when the time came, we would go together with our loved ones to the beautiful Santa Barbara beach and have a passing ceremony where he would ingest the medicine given him by his caring physician.

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