COMPASSION FROM CONGRESS UNLIKELY

Who would have thought that the liberals on the Supreme Court would
vote against medical marijuana while Sandra Day O'Connor, Clarence
Thomas and Chief Justice William Rehnquist voted for it?

Was this compassionate conservatism? Actually, they voted on the basis
of states' rights, finding the federal government's intrusion into
health decisions overreaching. Will the conservative Congress now show
compassion and amend the law to allow seriously ill patients the only
relief from suffering available to them? Don't count on it.

It is sad that the two appointees by the president who didn't inhale
couldn't find the compassion to agree with O'Connor's well-reasoned
arguments.

JACK MILLER

Atlanta