FAY'S REACTION A SIGNPOST FOR SANER DRUG POLICIES?

Tribune:

So, Calvina Fay is outraged? That's a good thing. Why? Because when she
says she supports a sound drug policy, she forgets to mention that every
major drug policy study ever done recommends decriminalization of marijuana
possession, many outright legalization. That would be 25 reports done over
the past century. Recommendation No. 6 of the Institute of Medicine Report
on Medical Marijuana recommended allowing medical access to marijuana on a
limited basis. They did not say what the sick and dying should do after six
months if their symptoms continued, other reports predating the IOM Report
recommended allowing access to medical marijuana and to treat it like any
other drug.

Hence, when zero tolerance folks like Ms. Fay are outraged, that is almost
a signpost for saner drug policies coming ahead. Since our federal
government mails out 300 joints per month to seven surviving patients in
the Investigational New Drug Compassionate Use Program yet no one else is
so blessed, Ed Rosenthal was filling in the gap serving as a reliable
supply of medical cannabis and starter plants for those entitled to use
medical marijuana under Proposition 215.

Ed Rosenthal served the sick and dying, while Ms. Fay touts drug policies
that harm decent folk while failing to discourage youth illicit drugs use.
Better to be called a drug kingpin by a woman who has probably never read
one major drug policy work in her life, than to truly be a witch hunter.

Matthew Hulett

Brick, N.J.