'FOR-PROFIT' POT CLINIC SIMPLY IS CAPITALISM

It's commendable that Kraige Kinney (Letter: "Just say no to
for-profit pot shops," Dec. 21) voted for citizens with serious
health issues to use the plant cannabis (marijuana) medicinally.

Many citizens with severe pain (for example) are able to choose using
or already have been using significantly more dangerous and extremely
addictive narcotics with many side effects (including possible death)
that leave them feeling like zombies and unable to function or work.

Cannabis has historically also been used for muscle spasms, nausea
and many other ailments with far less side effects than
pharmaceutical drugs. Citizens deserve the option to use the natural
and safer God-given plant for those medical conditions.

Citizens should be allowed to make a profit for cultivating and
providing cannabis and more so since the federal government threatens
to cage them.

Alternative pharmaceutical medications involve profit at every step
of the equation. Is there any medication in existence that does not
involve profit; why discriminate against cannabis?

Stan White

Dillon