Medicinal Marijuana Barred by Court

* Re “High Court Bars Pot Distribution for Medical Uses,” Aug. 30: So much for the Supreme Court’s belief in “states’ rights,” which is too often a euphemism for obstruction of federal civil rights protections. When a state takes a position to the left of the federal government’s, the Rehnquist-Scalia court conveniently forgets about states’ rights.

No, I have never used marijuana.

RUSSELL STONE

Westchester

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* I wonder what the Supreme Court justices see when a loved one is suffering the ravages of disease, and I wonder what they feel. I guess an impartial jury of their peers would conclude that they love the law and care on some other, lesser level for the suffering of someone who might be their own mother, father, wife or child. I just do not comprehend such a callous, cruel decision.

STUART SIMON

Venice

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* What sense is voting if voters have no rights? If we vote for something and it passes, then there should be no questions, no problems. But the government always has to try to take away our rights.

How can the FDA label marijuana as a highly dangerous drug? Marijuana is extremely helpful to people who are sick and in pain. It supplies a nonaddictive, temporary relief of the symptoms caused by illnesses, unlike more potent prescription drugs such as morphine, which can be severely addicting and have a potential of being fatal. Marijuana is less dangerous than these drugs already prescribed by doctors and less dangerous than even alcohol.

We as voters have rights and we need to fight back against the ignorant government and justice system.

TONNE BAILEY

Riverside