WHAT REAL EXPERTS SAY

On April 28, former U.S. Secretary of Education Bill Bennett led a rally at
the state capitol opposing a ballot proposal for legalizing medical
marijuana. And just who were these experts on medical marijuana? A
moralist/philosopher, two district attorneys, a sheriff, a businessman, tow
gubernatorial candidates, a handful of politicians - but no doctors or
physicians. This is the equivalent of asking Jerry Springer to provide
expert opinion on nuclear physics.

Perhaps this is why the debate over medical marijuana is so impoverished --
the wrong people are in charge of formulating medical policy. Doctors have
a different opinion. Rememer, a Journal of the American Medical
Association article last year called the policy of prosecuting medical
marijuana users "misguided, heavy-handed and inhumane."

John Corbett Highlands Ranch