SUPPORT POT RESEARCH

As a person who has a son with a serious and debilitating disease, I
am a strong supporter of allowing medical research on the benefits of
cannabis. During his adult life, my son was hospitalized often in
order to control his disease. About nine years ago, he tried
marijuana. His doctor gave him a prescription for it. And he has been
symptom-free ever since. It has not led him to harder drugs.

Cannabis should be researched by the medical community so that it can
be dispensed as a legal medical drug. It can be of help to many who
suffer from various diseases. It does need controls and I do not
support making it available to everyone.

However, a letter writer calls it "poison" but fails to mention the
worst, most damaging drug we have: alcohol ("Pot destroys lives," Your
Views, Nov. 27). Alcohol causes more deaths, broken relationships and
hardships than anything else. Alcohol is far worse than marijuana.

Dorothy McMillan

Riverside