Medical Marijuana
Both ultraconservatives and liberals in California voted for medical marijuana, and under the conservative agenda of states’ rights this law should prevail (“Justices Signal Trumping of Medical Pot Law in Calif.,” March 29). When my mother was dying of cancer my born-again sister, a staunch Republican, went out and bought her pot to help ease her pain, and both my conservative Republican sister and brother support medical use of marijuana for the sick and dying. Anyone who has watched a person dying of AIDS or cancer would not deny them a drug that might ease their suffering.
What I do not understand is how the Republicans and the conservative justices can preach states’ rights, yet when it comes to easing the pain of the dying, they throw states’ rights out the window in favor of the multibillion-dollar war-on-drugs industry. Voters have seen that the argument for states’ rights is just a smoke screen for the Republican Party, which favors a corporate agenda over individual rights and states’ rights.
TOM MARTIN
West Hollywood
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