AMENDMENT COULD ENABLE PATIENTS TO AVOID OPIATES

The continuing arrests of sick Americans for their doctor-recommended
medicinal use of cannabis is proof of governmental incompetence.

Peer-reviewed modern biomedical research clearly demonstrates the pain
relieving and immune modulating properties of marijuana. Governmental
policies that ignore science are particularly tragic today when
wounded soldiers are forced to use unnecessarily large amounts of
addicting opiates when they would be healthier using low levels of
marijuana's active ingredients and low levels of opiates.

Why do our local congressmen ignore these facts and support federal
terrorism against Coloradans by voting against the Hinchey-Rohrabacher
amendment?

Dr. Robert Melamede

Associate professor and biology chairman

University of Colorado

Colorado Springs