WITCH HUNT OF THE 90'S

Editor,

Delegates at the AMA's semiannual policymaking committee in Dallas
approved a resolution that recommends allowing free discussion between
doctors and patients about marijuana use for treatment of diseases such as
AIDS and multiple sclerosis.

I read the recent AMA resolution about marijuana and came up with the
following question. What have we become where a group of doctors feel so
threatened they have to band together to even propose such a resolution?

I quote part of the AMA resolution. ``The AMA believes that effective
patient care requires the free and unfettered exchange of information on
treatment alternatives and that discussion of these alternatives between
physicians and patients should not subject either party to criminal
sanctions...''

It is a chilling indicator of our government's effort in this failure they
call the war on drugs. Our government's effort is the social equivalent of
the Vietnam war. The only difference is that it is US citizens who are the
enemy. I personally believe that this time period will be looked on as the
Witch Hunt of the late 1900's.

Robert Ryan
Salisbury