MEDICAL MARIJUANA IS ANOTHER OPTION

Editor: Nelson Moffat makes some good points with his
letter, "Death with Dignity Act needed in state" (June
5). But before Wisconsin considers legalizing this
option, it should first legalize medical marijuana,
because it has the potential to treat symptoms and
improve the quality of life to the degree that someone
might want to give life a chance.

Conventional drugs and other treatments all come with side effects,
and some patients cannot tolerate them. Marijuana offers another option.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has also
recently ruled in favor of patients using medical marijuana. It has
become clear that legal medical marijuana is now a matter of if rather
than when. For the sake of sick and dying state residents who need
medical marijuana today, state lawmakers need to make passing a state
medical marijuana law an urgent priority when they reconvene next
January. In the interim, voters must educate themselves as to where
candidates stand and vote accordingly this fall so that the
legislative leadership does not again kill the bill as they have every
legislative session since 1997.

Gary Storck, Director of communications Is My Medicine Legal YET?

Madison