The primary drawback of Amendment 20 is the spawning of a new
bureaucracy for drug regulation. The idea of regulating distribution
of marijuana more stringently than the distribution of morphine is
preposterous. Surely a system that can handle the distribution of a
dangerous, highly addictive drug like morphine is already adequate to
deal with marijuana. If it's medicine, treat it like medicine. I'm
baffled that a society so eager to drug its children with Ritalin and
Prozac could possibly object to this medical use.

KARLA MILLER,
Lafayette