QUESTIONS ABOUT MEDICAL MARIJUANA VOTES

A big Christmas thanks to the three city council members who (in a
3-3 Dec. 13 vote) gave an early present to all the gang-bangers and
street dealers of Kent by driving seriously ill citizens into their
underground world.

Also a big thanks from the big drug companies who love to charge
these patients $300 a day for pills that many say don't work or work
as well as medical marijuana.

An equally big thanks for nothing from Kent citizens with "legal"
state medical marijuana cards battling MS (multiple sclerosis), AIDS,
Lou Gehrig's disease, shingles, glaucoma, cancer and severe arthritis.

If Kent is a big city compare us with the way big cities around us
are handling this issue.

To the three city council members who voted down gardens in Kent I
say, where is your compassion, where is your courage and where is
your leadership? Your votes to severely limit access to sick people
comes across as small town paranoia, small-minded mistrust and
heartlessness for your sick citizens.

Gregory Worthing

Kent