WELL-FUNDED CABAL OPPOSES INITIATIVES THAT WOULD PROVIDE DRUGS TO THE DYING

What a recent article on Colorado's abondoned medical marijuana law
("Medicinal use of pot legal in Colorado until 1995") failed to mention
was:

1. After her bill to delete "obsolete" language from state law had been
introduced in committee by the General Assembly in 1995, Sen. Sally Hopper
sneakily added Colorado's long-standing medical marijuana law to the list.
This action came shortly after two towns in Hopper's district, Breckenridge
and Frisco, passed legislation that called on the state to uphold the law
and begin distributing medical marijuana to the ill. Due to Hopper's smoke
screen, affected citizens did not discover from the press that the state's
marijuana law would be stricken until it was too late.

2. In addition, the chancellor of the University of Colorado Health
Sciences Center asked legislators to delete the law from the books after a
Denver cancer survivor filed a lawsuit against the center to end its
negligence and to start providing medical marijuana to the ill, as
specified by the law.

3. No public record has been maintained by the Health Sciences Center
concerning the results of its studies in the early '80s on how efficacious
smoked cannabis proved to be for patients. As soon as the less effective
and more lucrative pharmaceutical drug Marinol (synthetic THC) became
available, research on smoked marijuana was halted.

Today, a well-funded cabal of district attorneys and cops, which lives off
busting marijuana smokers, opposes two initiatives that would once again
exclude dying people from its net. Ex-legislator and anti-medical marijuana
lobbyist Chris Paulson hypocritcally denies patients the right to an
effective medicine he supported legislatively in 1979.

Gregory Daurer Denver, CO


Checked-by: (Joel W. Johnson)