WAKE-UP CALL MAY COME AT BALLOT BOX

San Diego County supervisors who claim to distrust new poll results
showing that county voters strongly support Proposition 215 need to
do their homework ("Marijuana group's survey says voters oppose
supervisors' lawsuit," Jan. 10). This new Evans/McDonough poll,
commissioned by the Marijuana Policy Project, is absolutely
consistent with state and national polling on medical marijuana going
back two decades.

For example, in January 2004, the statewide Field Poll reported that
74 percent of California voters supported Prop. 215, a large increase
since the measure passed in 1996. Field's official summary of the
poll noted, "Voter support for the implementation of Prop. 215 cuts
across all partisan, ideological and age subgroups of the state."

The next wake-up call the supervisors get may come at the ballot box.

BRUCE MIRKEN,

Director of communications Marijuana Policy Project, San Francisco