CONSTITUENT SUPPORT

To the editor:

With regard to your recent editorial about Jim Gibbons and medical
marijuana, you end with a question: "Rep. Gibbons has surprised and
shocked many Nevadans. Can it really be he's no constitutionalist at
all -- that he's really just in favor of the federal bullies going
anywhere they want, doing anything they want, regardless of how they
trample the rights of the states and the expressed will of the people?"

The answer is yes.

When he was a lowly state legislator, Rep. Gibbons told me once at a
Lincoln Day Dinner at his home that he would not consider any drug law
reform because, "his constituency would not support it."

I wonder what has changed?

Eric R. Johnson

Reno