MEDIA NOT ACCURATE ON MARIJUANA REPORTS

Re: "Doctor suspended over marijuana prescriptions," (Our Region, June 16):

California voters decriminalized the use of marijuana by seriously ill
individuals. That does not make it a medicine. That would set a
dangerous precedent for other "medicines" that have to pass standards
for safety and efficacy. Real medicines are purified chemicals in safe
delivery systems and they don't involve burning leaves and inhaling
smoke.

Marijuana is too complex, unstable and harmful to be approved as a
medicine, and no medicine is inhaled in the form of a toxic smoke. You
wouldn't know that from media reports such as this.

JUDIE MIKULICICH
Rancho Santa Fe