THE HIGH COURT, HIGH TEENS AND STATE LAW ON MARIJUANA

Just because 56 percent of Californians vote that a plant should be a
medicine doesn't mean it should be one. States cannot decide what are
safe, reliable medicines by using the ballot box. Is each state going
to create the research and regulatory procedures necessary to
investigate every plant or every concoction that someone felt helped
them? Of course not. There are established rules for proving a
medicine is safe and reliable before being made available to the
public. Thank goodness the federal government sees things more clearly.

Although we may be sympathetic to the discomfort of patients who take
medicinal marijuana for pain, allowing them to consume an unproven
medicine is irresponsible.

Alesha Griffiths,

Oceanside