LET SCIENCE HAVE SAY

Congratulations to the U.S. Supreme Court for a ruling that leaves it to
Congress to determine how the medical application of marijuana is to be
handled.

The medical-excuse movement is out of control and creating an atmosphere of
medicine by popular vote. Marijuana advocates, not respected scientists and
physicians, are driving this issue.

Marijuana is not medicine. It is an impure, smoked, herbal substance that
has substantial side effects and substantial potential for abuse.

The most appropriate direction is to have the Food and Drug Administration
evaluate and approve substances that are isolated from marijuana or
synthesized to mimic the beneficial components through their normal careful
processes. That way science, and not emotional politics, will govern what
becomes medicine.

Eric A. Voth, M.D.

Chairman

The Institute on Global Drug Policy

St. Petersburg, Fla.