MARIJUANA

Legalize This Drug After Court Ruling

It's not very often that I agree with a Democrat, but last month
Congressman Barney Frank, D-Mass., filed a bill that would change federal
law to legalize the use of medical marijuana and effectively overturn a
recent Supreme Court decision.

Frank proposed this bill because, even though eight sovereign states have
passed laws legalizing the use of medical marijuana, the federal government
continues to arrest and prosecute cancer, AIDS and glaucoma patients who
use the drug.

On April 3, Frank introduced H.R. 1344, the "States' Right to Medical
Marijuana Act." The bill would amend the federal Controlled Substances Act
to allow physicians to recommend medical marijuana and allow patients to
use it, without facing federal charges.

Please ask your congressman to co-sponsor H.R.1344.

Joseph P. Lolli
Edisto Island