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