POGROM AGAINST CANNABIS 1 OF 3

I am moved by the frustration expressed by officer Don Pass in his Oct. 21
letter, "Dangerous marijuana" Pass should visit www.leap.cc, the Law
Enforcement Against Prohibition Web site, and see that he is not alone.

The police are here to keep us from each other, not from ourselves. For
that we have churches, parents and friends, thank you very much.

Six years after our Compassionate Use Act became law, enforcement cries
confusion while pressing forward the pogrom against cannabis. This refrain
of "not sick enough" is heard from the cop on the street executing punitive
persecution, to the likes of U.S. Judge Frank Damrell while sentencing
Bryan Epis to 10 years in prison.

But the sky steadfastly refuses to fall, as predicted by then-state
Attorney General Dan Lungren in his argument against the act in the 1996
voter information pamphlet.

I should be enjoying equal treatment before the law along with users of
alcohol and tobacco. How long will the governed consent to tyranny?

- - Jay Bergstrom, Sacramento