MEDICAL POT WORKS IN COLORADO

As a Colorado citizen who voted for Amendment 20 allowing people to
use cannabis medicinally in my state, I agree with the medical
marijuana bill introduced into the Alabama Legislature ("Bill Would
Allow Medical Marijuana In Alabama," April 8), which protects sick
citizens from the federal government's attacks.

The federal government wants citizens to think cannabis is a chemical
weapon of mass destruction; in reality, Coloradoans use the plant
cannabis medicinally while following state law, and it works: Cannabis
use has not increased, and the sky hasn't fallen. At the election
booth, this issue is batting a thousand; it has passed every time.

Further, it is Biblically correct to relegalize cannabis (kaneh bosm,
before the King James Version). It is no accident that the Bible
indicates God created all the seed-bearing plants and said they were
all good, on literally the very first page in Genesis 1:11-12 and 29-30.

The only Biblical restriction placed on cannabis is that we use it
with thanksgiving (see 1 Timothy 4:1-5). The table of the Lord is not
defiled (see Malachi 1:6-14, subtitled "Sin of the Priests," New
American Standard Bible). Many obedient Christians would also like
clergy to speak up on this issue since Jesus Christ risked going to
jail in order to heal the sick.

Stan White

Dillon, Colo.