A PAINFUL STORY ABOUT MARIJUANA

Re "Marijuana in the medicine chest," column, April 26

The saddest part about Sandy Banks' column is that she flushed the
medication down the toilet and she still lives in pain. By learning
to use medical marijuana properly, she would probably find a huge
decrease in her arthritis symptoms.

As a registered nurse who has worked with the terminally ill and with
patients facing potentially fatal diseases and therapies, I've seen
that medical marijuana often means the difference between living and
starving to death, or the difference between extreme pain and greatly
reduced or no pain.

It is absurd that one would choose to live in pain, but even more
absurd that our federal government would force an individual to do so.

Jeffery P. Segall

Long Beach