PATIENTS LOSE THEIR HOPE

In the decision citing that federal law supersedes state law for the
purposes of prosecuting the users of medical marijuana, the Supreme Court
has struck a powerful blow for . . . who? what?

The potential defendants in these cases are terminal AIDS and cancer
patients who use the drug to curb their nausea enough to be able to eat,
gain weight and keep their energy up so that they might fight off for
another day the diseases slowly killing them.

While the pharmaceutical companies that hold Washington under their thumbs
are producing highly addictive narcotics and reaping tremendous profits, the
court has destroyed the small hopes for survival of thousands of patients
all over the country.

JOHN EATON MORRIS, Rome