LOBBYISTS WINNING MARIJUANA FIGHT

I am writing in regard to your editorial on Friday, March 26, in which you
state that the government continues to avoid a clear-cut decision on medical
marijuana.

I wonder how many of your readers remember an article that appeared in LIFE
magazine in the mid-'60s. The article stated that the farmers in North and
South Carolina were preparing their fields for the planting of marijuana
since they were sure the Congress would soon pass a law legalizing the
smoking of marijuana.

A week or two later, a picture appeared in LIFE showing wall-to-wall liquor
lobbyists packed together in the halls of Congress lobbying their
representatives. They declared that there would never be a law legalizing
marijuana as long as there was a liquor lobby.

I wonder how many of our congressmen and senators have stock in Seagrams.

Virginia Powers
Atascadero