PROPOSITION 215 AND THE LAW

Your editorial,"resisting the law"(July 21,1998), excellently points out how
Orange County Deputy District Attorney Carl Armbrust and the Orange County
DA's office are ruthlessly punishing medicinal marijuana patients and
disregarding the will of the people of Orange County who passed proposition
215 with a 51 percent majority.

If officials in Orange County would work to implement a plan for the safe an
affordable distribution of marijuana to all patients in medical need of
marijuana, as Prop.215 directs, many sick and dying people would be able to
live much healthier lives and not have to worry about dying behind bars. It
would take business away from dishonest and dangerous dealers and put
medicinal marijuana into a health-care setting, where it belongs.

Dave Herrick and Marvin Chavez, both medical marijuana patients, are truly
heroes who have risked their freedom to provide relief to sick and dying
people in Orange County

Mary Menos-Garded Grove

Checked-by: Melodi Cornett