FEDS UNDERMINE MARIJUANA STUDY

Dear editor:

It's no wonder the only patient dropped out of the medical marijuana
study. ("Lone Patient quits marijuana study," Oct. 10 issue.)

The government has opposed any study of marijuana that focuses on the
positive effects of marijuana instead of the negative. Growing
poor-quality marijuana renders a poor-quality drug more akin to what
marijuana users call ditch-weed.

Ditch-weed is generally a low-quality, less potent, bad tasting and
foul smelling cousin of marijuana called hemp.

The major problem is that the government doesn't know how to grow
quality marijuana, but does know how to grow hemp. While this works
well for the official government position that marijuana is not
medicine, it does nothing to advance science or our knowledge of
medical marijuana.

Any study of the medicinal properties of marijuana should include
high-quality marijuana grown by experts who know how to grow and
process marijuana (which involves culling the seeds and stems) and
not some government bozo reading the Hemp for Victory "Cultivating
Hemp" (circa 1942) training manual.

Jim White

Oregon, OH