CO COLUMNIST MISSED THE POINT OF INITIATIVE

I love columnist Gene Amole like he was my uncle, so it breaks my heart to
see him so off-base on the Coloradans for Compassionate Case's medical
marijuana initiative.

No, it doesn't legalize the sale of marijuana. The amendment is way too
police- and enforcement-oriented for many Colorado anti-drug-war activists,
but we reluctantly support it because, though legally flawed, it sends the
right message that the war on drugs must end.

Visit http://www.forahero.com , which tells about Peter McWilliams, an AIDS
patient who was arrested by the federal drug war Nazis for legally growing
marijuana under California's Proposition 215. Out on bail awaiting appeal,
and forbidden to possess or use the marijuana which allowed him to keep his
medicine in his stomach, he vomited it up last week and died, choking on
his vomit. This is the sort of judicial murder we seek to avoid with the
medical marijuana amendment.

Jack J. Woehr,
Golden