Pubdate: Thu, 11 Jun 2009
Source: Red Wing Republican Eagle (MN)
Copyright: 2009 Forum Communications Co.
Contact:  http://www.republican-eagle.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4958
Author: Stan White
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n598/a01.html

AMENDMENT WOULD PROTECT THE ILL

As a Christian, I supported Colorado Amendment 20, legalizing 
cannabis (kaneh bosm/marijuana) for sick citizens, and the law works 
properly to protect sick citizens from being discriminated against by 
government.

Colorado's medical cannabis law is the only one in America that is a 
constitutional amendment (R-E, June 7).

One benefit of Colorado's law is due to it being written in the 
state's Constitution because it protects citizens by not allowing 
government to change, dilute or rewrite the law.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty's veto of a compassionate bi-partisan bill 
permitting terminally ill patients to use cannabis to ease their pain 
is unacceptable. Letting voters decide on a constitutional amendment 
to protect sick citizens is the appropriate next step and the right 
thing to do.

Further, one reason to stop caging sick humans who use cannabis that 
doesn't mentioned is because it's biblically correct since Christ God 
our father, the ecologician, indicates he created all the 
seed-bearing plants, saying they are all good, on literally the very 
first page.

Stan White

Dillon, Colo.
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