FEDERAL INTERFERENCE

I feel much safer after reading about John Ashcroft and Asa
Hutchinson closing down the medical marijuana supply clubs in
California and threatening to revoke prescription-writing powers of
doctors in Oregon who help terminally ill patients die with dignity.
Lord only knows what those sick marijuana smokers and those
terminally ill patients had planned.

California's medical marijuana law and Oregon's assisted suicide law
were passed by ballot initiative. As in ``We the people'' have
spoken. Both laws are protected by the Constitution's 10th Amendment.
Evidently, Ashcroft and Hutchinson haven't bothered to read the
Constitution that they both swore to uphold.

On Sept. 11, we were attacked by ruthless terrorists. Since then,
anthrax has had American citizens living in a state of fear. Life as
we once knew it in America will never be the same. It is good to know
where our top law enforcement officials put their priorities.

I would like to suggest that Ashcroft and Hutchinson read the
Constitution, stop terrorizing American citizens, and start looking
for real terrorists.

Rick L. Meredith
Wesley Chapel