CITIZENS SUPPORT CANNABIS

As a Colorado citizen who voted for Amendment 20 allowing people to
use cannabis medicinally in my state, I agree with David Nickel
(letter: Medical Marijuana Bill Should Have Passed, Feb. 1, 2005) and
point out politicians do poorly in supporting their constituents on
this issue, yet in every recent case that reaches the ballot box, it
has passed by wide margins.

Now, Coloradoans use the plant cannabis,
following state law simultaneously and it works. Since Colorado
enacted its initiative, cannabis use has not increased, and the sky
hasn't fallen.

Government would like citizens to think cannabis is a
chemical weapon of mass destruction. In reality, it is one of those
seed bearing plants that God created and said is good on literally the
very first page of the Bible.

For perspective, imagine a family member
with cancer being allowed to self induce morphine every six minutes
for pain, but be prohibited from using cannabis. That's the way I
looked at it when my son was dying with leukemia.

Stan White

Dillon, Colo.