MARIJUANA NOT DANGEROUS

I am not sure with what authority Sandra S. Bennett makes her medical
judgments in her August 22 letter, "MARIJUANA IS NOT MEDICINE."

Readers can see what medical and other organizations endorse marijuana as
medicine on the Web at http:www.drugwarfacts.org/medicalm.htm.

Even if marijuana has no medical value, should a free country's government
arrest, jail or imprison someone who chooses to use a natural substance
that has never been documented in its 5,000 year history to kill a single
person?

Even if marijuana were dangerous, which it is not, what right does the
government have to punish its citizens for using it? After all, its a free
country.

Or is it?

Kirk Muse
Vancouver, Wash.