NOT FOOLED BY MANNIX PLAN

Politicians must love billion-dollar boondoggles because they can't
help proposing them. Republican Kevin Mannix's plan to recriminalize
medical marijuana and provide a taxpayer handout to the
pharmaceutical industry could easily cost our state millions upon
millions of dollars.

His so-called Oregon Crimefighting Act (Letters, July 26) would not
reduce crime by making thousands of sick and disabled patients
felons. Patients use medical marijuana to help them retain their
sight despite their glaucoma and to help them survive through
chemotherapy treatments.

Mannix wants to force hard-working Oregonians to shell out their
money to the pharmaceutical industry for drugs that patients don't
even want. Please don't be fooled by yet another Republican
boondoggle. Don't support Initiative Petition 104.

ANTHONY JOHNSON

Political director, Voter Power Southeast Portland