CANNABIS PROHIBITION CREATED MEDICAL MARIJUANA MESS

It's commendable that citizens (Medical marijuana In Michigan is an
utter mess, Dec. 23) voted for people with serious health issues to
use the plant cannabis (marijuana) medicinally. The "mess" isn't due
to sick or in-pain citizens wishing to use the God-given plant; it's
due to cannabis prohibition and the governments which perpetuate one
of America's worst policy failures in history.

Many citizens with "chronic 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 100 percent pure plant for those medical conditions.

And does Goldie Wood think Vicodin, Percocet, Oxycontin and other
narcotics are better in the hands of those "children?"

Stan White, Dillon, Colo.