MARIJUANA MISCATEGORIZED

In "Denver DEA: Drug Rings, Not Medical Pot" (Summit Daily News, April
6) a DEA spokesperson claimed that aggravating factors must be
involved before his agents raid a medical marijuana grow.

In fact, well over 800,000 arrests are made every year on the grounds
that tetrahydrocannabinols and cannabis are listed as Schedule I,
having "no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United
States and a lack of accepted safety for use under medical
supervision."

Yet on October 7, 2003, The United States Patent and Trademark Office
awarded patent #6630507 to the Department of Health and Human
Services, acknowledging those substances' accepted medical use in
treatment and accepted safety for use under medical
supervision.

If not "legalization", surely the word "restitution" is in President
Obama's vocabulary?

Jose Melendez

Mutually Opposing Marijuana Prohibition