ASHAMED OF GOVERNMENT

Re "Anniston man finds one state's medicine is another's illicit drug"
(News article, Aug. 18):

To charge and imprison a card-carrying medical patient to 2-10 years
for marijuana possession is beyond making sense for a country where
the federal government grows it and sends it to patients via federal
mail, where the Department of Veterans Affairs allows vets in medical
states to use cannabis, and where the government receives millions a
year in taxes from over-the-counter sales.

If Michael Lapihuska is sentenced to time behind bars for one gram,
this country truly has gone far downhill. I'm so ashamed of my
government. Truly.

David Parker

Huntsville