SUPREME COURT RULING DISREGARDS THE FACTS

Perhaps I gave the U. S. Supreme Court more credit than deserved as I
expected them to go with the facts and find pot not guilty. In 1937 Harry
Anslinger convinced Congress that pot was a date rape drug that led to
Communism - over the objections of the AMA. Anslinger was a cop not a
doctor of medicine. Are they still that ignorant in Washington?

For centuries marihuana has been grown for its medicinal properties and was
in the U.S. Materia Medica until WW II and in the British Materia Medica
until 1972 and is still used worldwide as a medicine, and damn the DEA.

Of course, rape and Communism are sins in our society and to prevent the
rape of our mothers, aunts and sisters and their eventual Communization we
will go to any limit. In 1937 Congress decided that the best way to
control public morality was to jail drug addicts and users. Last year we
arrested 1.6 million American citizens just for pot possession. In our
times we unjustly jail the meek and humble by the millions, if they are
black. We deny kids caught with drugs an education, (zero tolerance and
all that junk.) We make the poor homeless if we catch them using drugs. In
addition, we will make war, [kill the bastards,] on nations that disagree
with us. How can we dare think of our country as the moral leader of the
free world?

I am sorry to say that I shall always remember this decision for its
arrogant disregard of the facts, its mean spirited withholding of justice
for the sick and dying and its upholding of a hollow morality that cloaks
enormous injustice in the face of urgent demands of freedom and liberty
from our people.

Jos E. Hopwood Quantico, MD