PROSECUTING POT IS WRONG

Anne Saker's article ("DEA tries to look into patient files," Aug.
11)points to another front in the vicious assault on sense and science
being demonstrated by today's anti-cannabis forces. Is it any
coincidence this case dovetails so well with Kevin Mannix's plan to
destroy the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program with his new intiative?

Cannabis is effective. Science continues to prove it and patients
continue to swear by it. The feds have been driven to maniacal fervor
in their illogical and evangelical endeavor. And, in spite of their
utter failure, they continue with a bullheaded insistence that they're
right, when they are so very wrong.

ALLAN ERICKSON

Eugene