MARIJUANA: EASING PAIN WORTH MAKING SYSTEM LEGAL

In regard to the unsigned editorial taking pot shots at marijuana
pharmacies: I hope you're never in a situation where you're in so much
pain and you've endured epidurals, pain pills and patches and try to
find relief with marijuana. You have to wait months to get your
(marijuana) medicine because the only way you can legally get it is to
grow it yourself or have someone else to grow it for you.

Can you imagine if all prescription drugs were that way? Here's your
cholesterol prescription; it's garlic, but you have to grow it.

The alternative is to turn to illegal means, and a person in pain does
not need to invite more trouble into their life.

Learn from California's mistakes and make a system that works for
Hawaii. And if a doctor prescribes it legally, why can't one buy it
legally? Answer that, nameless editorialist.

R. J. Brakel

'O'okala, Big Island