POT FESTIVAL CRITIC WAS OUT OF BOUNDS

Re: Public pot festival a sad display, Soundoff, April 24

My life depends on cannabis 24/7, and, believe me, I do have a very
meaningful life. I walk everywhere when possible, use local transit,
carry hemp bags for shopping, do one hour of cardio five days a week
at my local gym and work full-time.

During all that, as a holder of a federal medical marijuana licence, I
smoke 10 grams of cannabis a day to combat nausea, chronic diarrhea
and pain from Crohn's disease, which I've suffered for 20 years.

Celebrating the "420 Festival" is my God-given right seeing as how I
should have been dead by age 30 -- which was six years ago.

Michelle Rainey

Vice-president and financial agent

BC Marijuana party