MCWILLIAMS HAD OPTION TO TAKE ALTERNATE MEDICINE

Regarding "Let judge know your feelings on McWilliams," Letters, June 28: We
are certainly saddened at the death of anyone, including Peter McWilliams.
But it's hardly reasonable for letter writer Diane Fallon to expect us to
believe he died from lack of marijuana. Her statement, "He is now dead
because a judge forbade him to smoke marijuana ..." is hardly logical. It is
more likely McWilliams died from AIDS.

Fallon doesn't help make the case for smoking marijuana. Any doctor could
have prescribed marinol, an extract of marijuana, for the ethical relief of
pain for McWilliams. Sure, I'll write the judge, as she suggests. I'll tell
him we already have the benefit of marijuana to relieve pain which does not
require smoking it. But then the judge probably already knows that.

W. D. Allen Sr.
Placentia