THE TRUTH ABOUT MEDICINAL POT

I voted yes on Proposition 215 in 1996. I am a registered nurse and
at the time was working with oncology patients. I agree that these
patients, as well as many others, could at least receive no harm from
marijuana -- if not receive multiple benefits. However, the recent
letters stating that if medical marijuana were available at
drugstores our prisons would not be overcrowded are ludicrous. When
was the last time a patient using medical marijuana went to prison
for marijuana possession, or jail, or even was arrested? Only people
who take this to the extreme (pot houses, etc.) suffer these severe
punishments. Most of the debate either for or against medicinal
marijuana rarely touches the issues that got it voted into law to begin with.

Terminally ill patients do not buy extra weed to sell to little kids.
And no medical studies show how long one is impaired by smoking
marijuana vs. how long it is in their system.

Scott O'Conner

Modesto