DRUG INDUSTRY IS THE ONE OPPOSED TO POT

Regarding your May 10 story ('Montel Williams opens up about medicinal
marijuana'), I believe Williams is wrong when he says that the Bush
administration is opposed to medicinal marijuana because it believes the
garbage about how it doesn't work.

The Bush administration and the drug war cheerleaders are opposed to
medicinal marijuana because they know that the pharmaceutical industry
doesn't want this easy-to-grow herb replacing its very expensive and
patented medications.

The Bush administration people know how much money the pharmaceutical
industry has donated to the Republican party and Republican candidates.
(See the Web site www.saynotodrugs.org )

After all, the drug companies are not in business for anybody's health, but
rather to make money.

Kirk Muse

Mesa, Ariz.