LEGALIZED CANNABIS WORKS IN COLORADO

To the Editor:

As a Colorado citizen who voted for Amendment 20 allowing people to
use cannabis medicinally in my state, I agree with the Rhode Island
Medical Marijuana Act ("R.I. House and Senate to hear medical
marijuana bill," March 22), 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.

Further, it is biblically correct to re-legalize cannabis. 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. 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.