MEDICAL MARIJUANA ONLY SOURCE OF RELIEF

Amen and thank you to Randy Alcorn for Sunday's "Right on Target" column.

I have direct interest in both of the issues he discussed, assisted suicide
and medical marijuana.

My son, Ken Smyth, died in 1993 after having HIV/AIDS for about 12 years.
We had always planned that when the time came, we would go together with
our loved ones to the beautiful Santa Barbara beach and have a passing
ceremony where he would ingest the medicine given him by his caring physician.

As it happened, his brain left him before he left his body, and the time
never came.

During the later years of his illness, one of the few things that eased his
pain, the nausea and the general sickies was marijuana. We got it for him
whenever and however we were able.

It is patently absurd that we had to risk so much to afford him some little
relief and comfort.

It is odd to me that these same people who do not want to help people die
by choice and with dignity are so quick to push the capital punishment button.

Janet Benner

Santa Barbara