FEDERAL GOVERNMENT KILLED SUFFERING PATIENT

The June 16 wire service story on the death of Peter McWilliams
neglected to mention that he died in his bathroom -- choking on his
own vomit. This piece of information is crucial in light of the other
facts mentioned in the article.

McWilliams was a medical marijuana patient who suffered severe nausea
because of chemotherapy treatment for his AIDS and non-Hodgkin's
lymphoma. Marijuana alleviated the nausea, but McWilliams could not
use the drug because the federal government refused to recognize
California law. Instead, it arrested and tried this seriously ill man
as a drug kingpin.

At times like these, I am ashamed of my own government. The feds
killed Peter McWilliams by denying him the right to control his nausea
through the use of marijuana.

Kenji Klein