CONCERN ABOUT MARIJUANA RULING

Re "Patient loses appeal on medical marijuana," March
15

I was sickened to hear of the appeals court ruling that refuses to
reconsider our draconian drug laws even to save the life of a
suffering woman. There is something wrong with a government that would
rather spend billions of dollars keeping marijuana illegal and wasting
countless law enforcement hours hunting down the ill and the dying,
instead of simply acknowledging that marijuana is a useful medicinal
herb (and even as a recreational drug is no more dangerous than
alcohol) and decriminalizing it.

Amitai Adler

Los Angeles