One of the prime reasons that the Drug Enforcement Agency and its fellow
drug warrior organizations are striving so desperately to block the approval
of medicinal marijuana is that if marijuana does become accepted as a valid
medicine it will have to be reclassified from Schedule I (too dangerous for
physicians to prescribe) to Schedule II (available for doctors to prescribe).

It would then be possible for any physician or medical institution to do
the unbiased, objective research that has been blocked so effectively by the
National Institute on Drug Abuse and the DEA for all these years.

When the DEA loses its stranglehold monopoly on allowing or preventing
research, studies demonstrating that marijuana is a safe and effecttive
medicine can and will be done. These studies also will expose as baseless the myriad exaggerated claims about the dangers of marijuana use. The truth will out.

No longer will it be possible to hoodwink the public with florid rhetoric about the addictive, reefermadness menace that warrants jailing (and confiscating the property of) otherwise lawabiding adult users.

No wonder the drug warriors are frantic. Their jobs are at risk.

Very sincerely,

David L.Edwards, M. D.
2715 Schirm Loop, N. W.
Olympia,Washington, 98502
(360) 8667165