KUBO USES SENSE ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA

The U.S. attorney for Hawaii, Ed Kubo, should be applauded for leaving
Hawaii's medical marijuana patients alone.

Following the arrest and conviction of Oakland, Calif., medical marijuana
advocate Ed Rosenthal by the U.S. Justice Department, many medical marijuana
patients in Hawaii were concerned that we might be among the next targets.
Thankfully, Kubo has wisely decided to use his limited resources to fight
the scourge of crystal meth instead of arresting Hawaii's sick and injured
for using marijuana as medicine.

The value of marijuana as medicine, long known through anecdotal evidence,
is now being established by studies in the United Kingdom under government
license. Eighty percent of multiple sclerosis patients involved in one U.K.
study have found marijuana to be the most effective medicine they have used.
These findings support our own experiences here.

While Kubo's superiors continue to threaten patients across the United
States, he has focused on doing the right thing -- fighting ice, not medical
marijuana. We can only hope he continues to be left alone to do the what he
knows is best for Hawaii.

Thomas C. Mountain

Honolulu Medical Marijuana Patients Co-Op

Kaneohe