Subj: US NY: PUB LTE: Comfort For The Dying
From: Is My Medicine Legal Yet? www.immly.org
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 04:40:38 -0800
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01.n1915.a03.html
Pubdate: Wed, 14 Nov 2001
Source: Newsday (NY)
Copyright: 2001 Newsday Inc.
Contact: letters@newsday.com
Website: http://www.newsday.com/homepage.htm
Author: Gary Storck
COMFORT FOR THE DYING
Regarding your article "Ashcroft Targets Suicide Doctors" (Nov. 7): Attorney General John Ashcroft's decision reversing the federal policy toward Oregon's assisted-suicide law and basing it on last May's unanimous Supreme Court ruling on medical marijuana signals that the Bush Administration's so-called "compassionate conservatism" was just a ruse.
Drug Enforcement Agency agents busting California medical marijuana clinics and federal policies that keep this medicine from sick and dying Americans intentionally inflicts needless suffering. If the sick and dying can't take it any more, now the federal government won't let doctors help them end it all. Certainly not compassionate, certainly not respecting states' rights and definitely just plain mean.
It's time for the government to get out of doctor's offices and start using all its resources to protect us from terrorists, not making life harder for some of our most vulnerable citizens.
Gary Storck,
Madison, Wisc.
Subj: US NY: PUB LTE: Drug Busting
From: DPFIL http://www.drugsense.org/dpfil/
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 06:28:04 -0800
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01.n1915.a09.html
Pubdate: Thu, 15 Nov 2001
Source: Newsday (NY)
Copyright: 2001 Newsday Inc.
Contact: letters@newsday.com
Website: http://www.newsday.com/homepage.htm
Author: Danny Terwey
DRUG BUSTING
You have my thanks for the editorial on the recent federal raid of the West Hollywood medical marijuana clinic ("U.S. Shouldn't Bust Legal Medical Marijuana Sites," Viewpoints, Nov. 2.) The authorities responsible for this tyranny are despicable, and I hope their supervisors realize how harmful these actions have been. We need all our law enforcement officials to focus on real threats, not on dying people who need marijuana to get by.
Danny Terwey
Santa Cruz, Calif.
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Subj: US CA: PUB LTE: DEA Roughs Up Doctors
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01.n1912.a02.html
Source: San Francisco Examiner (CA)
Pubdate: Tue, 13 Nov 2001
Copyright: 2001 San Francisco Examiner
Contact: letters@sfexaminer.com
Website: http://www.examiner.com/
Author: L. J. Carden
DEA ROUGHS UP DOCTORS
RE: your article on District Attorney Terence Hallinan's press conference about the DEA raiding physicians who recommend marijuana ("Hallinan's pot shots at feds," The Examiner, Nov. 6)
Hallinan obeys and enforces California's laws, and he expects everyone else in his city to do the same. Even the DEA. He and Supervisor Mark Leno made it clear the DEA is not welcome here.
Dr. Marion (Mollie) Fry wrote my recommendation and now the DEA has taken my personal medical records along with those of nearly 5,000 other California patients.
The records were taken at gunpoint on Sept. 28, 2001, while Dr. Fry, a cancer and double mastectomy survivor, hands cuffed behind her back and face in the dirt of her driveway, tried to calm her 14-year-old son (also cuffed in the dirt).
Hallinan felt this raid on a licensed California physician was important enough to invite Dr. Fry to come and speak. Imagine my disappointment not to see a single word about this brave and compassionate Christian lady in your article.
A remark about the Supreme Court's "blow" to medicinal marijuana was also lacking total accuracy. The high court's decision in May was extremely narrow, and while it wasn't particularly a good thing for medical cannabis, it certainly is not a death knell, as some would explain it.
L.J. Carden, Concord
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