FINDING SOLACE IN MEDPOT DESPITE U.S. DRUG POLICY

Our drug czar, John Walters, wants to compare medical marijuana to snake
oil. Snake oil is something that was pushed on people by traveling
hucksters. People were promised that it would cure their pains, but by the
time they tried it and realized it did nothing, the huckster was gone,
already plying his wares to a new town of suckers.

Medical marijuana is not being pushed on anyone by hucksters, traveling or
otherwise. The people who regularly use it are the ones pushing for its
legalization. If we want to use old American concepts, it's more like a
beloved and time-tested home remedy. Walters has so little respect for
traditional American values of freedom, truth and democracy that I think he
must have been cloned from old Soviet DNA. The whole medical marijuana
debacle makes me wonder who actually won the Cold War.

Patricia Schwarz, Pasadena