COLUMN MISREPRESENTS ADMINISTRATION'S STANCE

To the editor: Ned Bristol's column, "A lot spent to stop pot,"
describes the wastefulness of marijuana prohibition and the profit
incentive it provides to black marketers. However, his description of
the Obama administration's position on medical use is inaccurate.

If the Obama Administration were sympathetic to those who benefit from
medicinal use, it would remove marijuana from Schedule I of the
Controlled Substance Act or at least grant U-Mass Professor Lyle
Craker's application to grow marijuana to supply research programs,
such as Massachusetts' 19-year-old "Therapeutic Research Act."

Steven Epstein, Georgetown

THE AUTHOR is a founder and officer of the Massachusetts Cannabis Reform
Coalition.