ILLEGAL DOSES

Re "Limited discourse" (News, Nov. 24):

I suffer from a chronic pain disease. The docs have finally settled
on methadone to treat my pain. After six-plus years on the same dose,
this methadone works about as well as two aspirin. I have tried and
now use marijuana to treat my pain, but I am not on the list for
medical marijuana. Would you put your name on a list to use a drug
still illegal in the United States? A list our police can read? I
have to lie to my doctor because he has to give these same police my
info if asked.

What a world we could have if the drug war, like all wars, were over
and the problem placed in the hands of health care professionals,
who, right now, sing the psalms of the legal drug cartels. I guess
maybe that might not be the answer either. As long as we have no say,
drugs, health care, and all hope belong to the far right, which
scares me no end.

John J. McCool

Reno