'REEFER MADNESS' COMMENTARY INSENSITIVE

June 29 - To the Editor:

Re: "'Reefer Madness' playing now in the Portsmouth budget," Mark
Brighton and Ramona Charland's recent rant about the City Council,
other city officials and the city budget, let me just say that as an
author and editor, I appreciate the use of metaphor every bit as much
as the next guy.

However, as a serious proponent of the legalization of medical
marijuana in New Hampshire, the last thing I want to see is its
trivialization in this fashion.

If you knew some of the people I know who desperately need it but
cannot simply pull up roots and move to a state where it's legal
today, I doubt you'd be penning such "witty," cheap - and basically
ignorant - wisecracks.

A dispensary in Eliot won't serve anyone from New Hampshire,
metaphorically or any other way.

Nancy W. Grossman

Portsmouth