VOTERS SHOULD BACK CANNABIS AS MEDICINE

The Aug. 18 Dispatch article "Medical marijuana may go on Ohio ballot"
mentions that Michigan voters soon may vote on allowing medicinal use
of marijuana. A dozen states already allow this, for one fundamental
reason: Cannabis is medicine. Documented medicinal use of the plant
goes back more than 6,000 years and the plant was a widely recognized
remedy until politics took control of it in the 1930s and led to bans
on research and patient use.

But opinion polls show the public gets it.

So, in November 2008, I will be cheering for Ohio and Michigan, for
successful initiatives would make them big winners in the game of
common sense and compassion.

MARY JANE BORDEN

President

Ohio Patient Network

Westerville